Hegel and Marx on the Spurious Infinity of Modern Civil Society

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2014 (166):122-142 (2014)
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I. Introduction Hegel's political philosophy is best understood as being both moderate and critical in character. While the recent scholarship is partially correct in its “centrist-reformist” image of Hegel's political philosophy, I argue that this image is incomplete. Hegel's project in the Philosophy of Right is moderate in the respect that it is a defense of his conceptualization of the modern state—it is the attempt to make explicit the implicit rationality of the modern state form. But his prescient critique of the intractable contradictions of the open capitalist market and his identification of civil society with…

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