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Freedom and the Economy
The Theory of Civil/Bourgeois Society after Hegel
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 404
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The book analyses the theories of bourgeois society by Hegel, Marx and Honneth. Two things become apparent. On the one hand, Hegel's project of integrating the atomistic market economy into his theory of ethical life proves to be unconvincing. This also applies to Axel Honneth's attempt to actualise Hegel's idea of an intrinsic morality of the market. On the other hand, Hegel's approach is helpful for discussing fundamental normative questions: What reasons speak against capitalism? And what forms of sociality characterise the economy of a free community?
Sven Ellmers, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) of Practical Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg. His research areas are critical theory, normative ethics, antisemitism studies and Classical German Philosophy.
This book is for academic institutes, libraries, specialists, (post-graduate) students of philosophy, intellectual history, and critical theory.