Laws of the spirit : a Hegelian theory of justice / Shannon Hoff.

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Acknowledgments; Note on the Text; Introduction; Part 1: Law, Ethicality, and Forgiveness; 1. Themes from "The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate"; The Challenge to Law; Punishment as Law and Punishment as Fate; Conclusion; 2. The Immediacy of Ethical Life; Hegel's Critique of "Natural" Society; The Ambivalence of Ethicality; 3. The Right of Personhood; The Self as Substance; Hegel's Critique of the Condition of Right; The Lord of the World and the Problem of Political Authority; The Meaninglessness of the World and the Problem of Individual Agency; Ethicality and Right; Conclusion.

4. The Legal Conditions of ActionThe Essential Externalization of the Person in Property; Law and its Mediation of Human Action; The World of Law; The "Becoming-Custom" of Law, and the Experience of Law as Restriction; Conclusion; 5. Law, Right, and Forgiveness; Individual Action and Law in the Phenomenology; Action in the Spiritual Animal Kingdom; Law in Ethical Life and the Condition of Right; "Conscience. The Beautiful Soul, Evil, and its Forgiveness"; Conscience, Forgiveness, and the Systems of Ethical Life and Law; Conclusion; Conclusion to Part 1.

Part 2: The Actuality and Practice of Law6. The Ideal Nation and the Real Nation; "All Reality is Solely Spiritual": Universal Reason in the Form of a Nation; The Space of Reason and the Determinacy of Justice; The Time of Reason and the Cultivation of Democracy; Conclusion; 7. Criminal Action; "Ordinary" Action and Criminal Action; Law and Punishment; The Inadequate Authority of Law; Forgiveness and Criminality; Conclusion; Conclusion to Part 2; Part 3: Hegel and Contemporary Political Life; 8. The Politics of Liberalism.

The Logical and Interpersonal Significance of the Concept of ForgivenessHegel's Critique of Liberalism; Conclusion; 9. Hegel and the Politics of Recognition; The Nature of Recognition; The Fact of Recognition; Or, Recognition Is Always Already Happening; The Demand for Recognition; Or, Recognition Is Always Not Yet Happening; Recognition and Justice; or, How Political Life is Answerable to Recognition; The Politics of Recognition; The Discourse of Recognition; Recognition and Law; Conclusion; Conclusion to Part 3; Conclusion: The Ethics and Politics of Conscience.

The Mediation of Action: Tradition and LawThe Singularity of Action and the Challenge of Responsibility; Law, Tradition, and Interpretation: The Ethics of Conscience; Law, Democracy, and Forgiveness: The Politics of Conscience; The Risk of Forgiveness; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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