| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| 1 | Introduction to Hegel's Political Philosophy | 3 |
| 1.1 | Why Hegel? | 3 |
| 1.2 | The Texts of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: The Lecture Notes and the Philosophy of Right | 5 |
| 1.3 | Hegel's Political Philosophy: Metaphysical or Political? | 12 |
| 2 | Hegel's Theory of Legal Punishment: An Overview | 24 |
| 2.1 | What Crime Is | 25 |
| 2.2 | The Split Will | 29 |
| 2.3 | The Significance of Punishment | 34 |
| 2.4 | Hegel's Key Claim about Punishment | 35 |
| 3 | Hegel's Conception of Freedom | 37 |
| 3.1 | Paragraphs 5-7 of the Philosophy of Right: The Concept of Will in General | 38 |
| 3.2 | The Rest of the Introduction: The Appropriate Content of the Free Will | 55 |
| 3.3 | Subjective and Objective Justifications | 61 |
| 4 | Recht-an-sich and the Power That Punishes | 76 |
| 4.1 | The Power That Punishes | 77 |
| 4.2 | The Early Vision of Ethical Substance | 81 |
| 4.3 | Recht-an-sich in the Rechtsphilosophie | 91 |
| 5 | Hegel's Immanent Criticism of the Practice of Legal Punishment | 108 |
| 5.1 | Ideals in Practice | 108 |
| 5.2 | Lawmaking: What Should Be Made Criminal? | 110 |
| 5.3 | Clutching: Hegel on Political Crime | 113 |
| 5.4 | Determination of Guilt | 120 |
| 5.5 | Sentencing | 131 |
| 5.6 | Infliction of Punishment | 133 |
| 5.7 | Hegel as Practical Theorist | 137 |
| Appendix: Translation of Passage from Rph III on Political Crime | 140 |
| 6 | Theory and Practice | 142 |
| 6.1 | The Power of Theory: Kierkegaard vs. Marx | 142 |
| 6.2 | "The Actual Is the Rational" | 152 |
| 6.3 | Hegel and the Activity of Justifying Practices | 167 |
| 6.4 | Immanent vs. Radical Criticism | 172 |
| Bibliography | 175 |
| Index | 185 |