This unique collection focuses on Hegel's Philosophy of Action as it relates to current concerns. Including key papers by Taylor, MacIntyre, and McDowell as well as eleven especially commissioned contributions, it aims to readdress the dialogue between Hegel and contemporary philosophy of action.

KATERINA DELIGIORGI is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex, UK
STEPHEN HOULGATE is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK
DUDLEY KNOWLES is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK
ALASDAIR MACINTYRE is Permanent Senior Research Fellow at Notre Dame University, USA
JOHN MCDOWELL is Distinguished University Professor at Pittsburgh, USA
FRANCESCA MENEGONI is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Padua, Italy
DEAN MOYAR is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, USA
TERRY PINKARD is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, USA
ROBERT B. PIPPIN is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago, USA
MICHAEL QUANTE is Full Professor of Practical Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Germany
HANS-CHRISTOPHSCHMIDT AM BUSCH is Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Magdeburg, Germany and Visiting Scholar at the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt, Germany
ALLEN SPEIGHT is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USA
CHARLES TAYLOR is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Canada
ALLEN W. WOOD is Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor at Stanford University, USA

Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: Hegel and Contemporary Philosophy of Action; A.Laitinen & C.Sandis Hegel and the Philosophy of Action; C.Taylor Hegel on Actions, Reasons, and Causes; D.Knowles Hegel's Social Theory of Agency: The 'Inner-Outer' Problem; R.B.Pippin Towards a Reading of Hegel on Action in the 'Reason' Chapter of the Phenomenology ; J.McDowell Doing without Agency: Hegel's Social Theory of Action; K.Deligiorgi Hegel on Responsibility for Actions and Consequences; A.W.Wood Freedom and the Lifeworld; T.Pinkard Action, Right, and Morality in Hegel's Philosophy of Right ; S.Houlgate Hegel on Faces and Skulls; A.MacIntyre What Does it Mean 'to Make Oneself an Object'? In Defense of a Key Notion of Hegel's Theory of Action; H-C.Schmidt am Busch Hegel's Planning Theory of Agency; M.Quante Hegel, Narrative and Agency; A.Speight Action Between Conviction and Recognition in Hegel's Critique of the Moral Worldviews; F.Menegoni Hegel andAgent-Relative Reasons; D.Moyar Bibliography Index