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Bibliography

Primary Texts and Translations

  • G. W. F. Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, edited by Allen W. Wood, translated by H. B. Nisbet, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991 (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought; the standard modern scholarly translation, including the editorial apparatus).
  • G. W. F. Hegel, Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, translated by T. M. Knox, revised, edited and introduced by Stephen Houlgate, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008 (Oxford World’s Classics).
  • G. W. F. Hegel, Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, translated with notes by T. M. Knox, Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, Oxford 1952 (the classic older translation, including the Zusätze).
  • G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right, translated by S. W. Dyde, George Bell and Sons, London 1896 (the first English translation; public domain, freely available online).
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, ed. by Klaus Grotsch, Felix Meiner Verlag, Philosophische Bibliothek 700, Hamburg 2017 (German critical edition, without the additions) – for readers who wish to consult the original.

Commentaries and Secondary Literature

  • Shlomo Avineri, Hegel’s Theory of the Modern State, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972.
  • Charles Taylor, Hegel, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1975.
  • Z. A. Pelczynski (ed.), Hegel’s Political Philosophy: Problems and Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971.
  • Z. A. Pelczynski (ed.), The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel’s Political Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1984.
  • Michael O. Hardimon, Hegel’s Social Philosophy: The Project of Reconciliation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994.
  • Allen W. Wood, Hegel’s Ethical Thought, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990.
  • Frederick Neuhouser, Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2000.
  • Alan Patten, Hegel’s Idea of Freedom, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999.
  • Paul Franco, Hegel’s Philosophy of Freedom, Yale University Press, New Haven 1999.
  • Dudley Knowles, Hegel and the Philosophy of Right, Routledge, London 2002 (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks).
  • Steven B. Smith, Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism: Rights in Context, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1989.
  • Robert B. Pippin, Hegel’s Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008.
  • Stephen Houlgate, Freedom, Truth and History: An Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy, 2nd ed., Routledge, London 2005.
  • Frederick C. Beiser, Hegel, Routledge, New York 2005 (Routledge Philosophers).
  • Axel Honneth, Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life, translated by Joseph Ganahl, Columbia University Press, New York 2014 (English translation of Das Recht der Freiheit).
  • Axel Honneth, Suffering from Indeterminacy: An Attempt at a Reactualization of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Van Gorcum, Assen 2000 (Spinoza Lectures).
  • Thom Brooks (ed.), Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2012.
  • Thom Brooks and Sebastian Stein (eds.), Hegel’s Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017.
  • Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA 2009.
  • David James, Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Subjectivity and Ethical Life, Continuum, London 2007.
  • Klaus Vieweg, Das Denken der Freiheit. Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München 2012 (German-language study, cited here for its central importance to recent scholarship).
  • Elisabeth Weisser-Lohmann, Rechtsphilosophie als praktische Philosophie, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München 2015 (German-language study).
  • Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts. Ein dialogischer Kommentar, Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2020 (German-language commentary).
  • Hans Friedrich Fulda, “Zum Theorietypus der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie,” in: Dieter Henrich and Rolf-Peter Horstmann (eds.), Hegels Philosophie des Rechts. Die Theorie der Rechtsformen und ihre Logik, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1982 (German-language essay).

Biography

  • Terry Pinkard, Hegel: A Biography, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000 (the standard English-language biography).
  • Klaus Vieweg, Hegel. Der Philosoph der Freiheit. Biographie, C. H. Beck, München 2020 (the major recent German-language biography; not yet translated into English).

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