Hegel's Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation

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Hegel's Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit. Drawing on important recent work on the social dimensions of Hegel's theory of knowledge, Molly Farneth shows how his account of how we know rests on his account of how we ought to live. Farneth argues that Hegel

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"Engaging and humane."---Robert Stern, Mind
"The clearest reading of Hegel ever published in English."---Martin Kavka, Modern Theology

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Molly Farneth is assistant professor of religion at Haverford College.