PHIL 615
19th-Century Philosophy
Fall 2025 · Hegel on the State
Topics
- Hegel’s dialectical method
- Family and civil society
- System of needs
- Law, administration and corporations
- Constitution and sovereign power
- Executive and legislative power
- International law and world history
- Marxist transformation
Readings
- G. W. F. Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, edited by Allen Wood, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1991 or later reprint.
- Michael Inwood, A Hegel Dictionary. Blackwell, 1992.
- Paul Cobben et al. (eds.), Hegel-Lexikon. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006.
- Dudley Knowles, Hegel and the Philosophy of Right. Routledge, 2002.
- David James (ed.), Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right: A Critical Guide. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right: preface and §§142–360.
- Julie Maybee, “Hegel’s Dialectics,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter 2020 edition, sections 1–2.
- Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1844), introduction.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus or course outline ↗Fall 2025
- Public syllabus linked from instructor’s official Concordia faculty page; instructor states the enrolled-student version on Moodle is binding. Cross-listed PHIL 486/615. Main text mandatory; Nisbet is the recommended English translation, with Knox or specified German editions accepted. Recommended secondary bibliography here is a selected subset.