Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Hegel without metaphysics?
  • Prologue. The actual and the rational
  • Part I: The law: the positivity of abstraction. Law: its concept and actualizations
  • Between nature and history: the law
  • Contract: the legal conditions of the social
  • Part II: The vitality and flaws of the social. "Citoyen" versus "bourgeois"? The quest for the "spirit of the whole"
  • The state of law: civil society
  • "Ethicality lost in its extremes"
  • Part III: The state and the political. Tocqueville-Hegel: a silent dialogue on modernity
  • A theory of representation
  • Beyond democracy
  • Part IV: Figures of subjectivity in objective spirit: normativity and institutions. the truth of morality
  • The conditions of political subjectivity
  • Subjects, norms, and institutions: what is an ethical life?
  • Epilogue: the passion of the concept.