Alice Ormiston is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carleton University.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Hegel in the Context of Modernity

1. "The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate": Toward a Reconsideration of the Role of Love in Hegel

Introduction
Hegel's Critique of Reflective Rationality
Love as the Overcoming of Reflective Rationality
The Failure of Love as Overcoming
Conclusion: Love, Will, and the Task of the Mature Philosophy

2. From Christianity to Conscience: The Role of Love in Hegel's Phenomenology

Toward a Philosophy of Unity: Hegel and the Transcendental Intuition
Phenomenology of Spirit: The Journey of the Modern Will
Conclusion: The Inadequacy of Intuition as a Philosophical Standpoint
Appendix: The Negative Trajectory of Enlightenment Consciousness

3. Philosophy of Right: The Final Reconciliation of Love and Reason

The Philosophical Standpoint: From Intuition to Notion
The Relationship between Experience and Notional Philosophy
Love and Logic in The Philosophy of Right
Appendix: Hegel and the Woman Question

4. The Historical "Failure" of Ethical Life: A View from Within Hegel

The Historical "Failure" of Ethical Life: The Split between Love and the Will
Hegel's Explanation of the "Failure"
Hegel's Explanation and the Problems of Our Time

5. Hegel and the Dual Task of Today

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