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Hegel's Political Philosophy:
Interpreting the Practice of Legal Punishment
Mark Tunick

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1Introduction to Hegel's Political Philosophy3
1.1Why Hegel?3
1.2The Texts of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: The Lecture Notes and the Philosophy of Right5
1.3Hegel's Political Philosophy: Metaphysical or Political?12
2Hegel's Theory of Legal Punishment: An Overview24
2.1What Crime Is25
2.2The Split Will29
2.3The Significance of Punishment34
2.4Hegel's Key Claim about Punishment35
3Hegel's Conception of Freedom37
3.1Paragraphs 5-7 of the Philosophy of Right: The Concept of Will in General38
3.2The Rest of the Introduction: The Appropriate Content of the Free Will55
3.3Subjective and Objective Justifications61
4Recht-an-sich and the Power That Punishes76
4.1The Power That Punishes77
4.2The Early Vision of Ethical Substance81
4.3Recht-an-sich in the Rechtsphilosophie91
5Hegel's Immanent Criticism of the Practice of Legal Punishment108
5.1Ideals in Practice108
5.2Lawmaking: What Should Be Made Criminal?110
5.3Clutching: Hegel on Political Crime113
5.4Determination of Guilt120
5.5Sentencing131
5.6Infliction of Punishment133
5.7Hegel as Practical Theorist137
Appendix: Translation of Passage from Rph III on Political Crime140
6Theory and Practice142
6.1The Power of Theory: Kierkegaard vs. Marx142
6.2"The Actual Is the Rational"152
6.3Hegel and the Activity of Justifying Practices167
6.4Immanent vs. Radical Criticism172
Bibliography175
Index185

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