Hegel's Idea of Freedom

by Alan Patten

This book offers the first full-length treatment in English of Hegel's idea of freedom - his theory of what it is to be free and his account of the social and political contexts in which this freedom is developed, realized, and sustained. Freedom is the value that Hegel most greatly admired
and the central organizing concept of his social philosophy.

Genres: Philosophy

232 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Alan Patten is Professor of Politics at Princeton University. A citizen of Canada and the United States, he obtained his B.A. from McGill University in 1988, and went on to do an M.A. at the University of Toronto and an M. Phil. and D. Phil. (1996) at the University of Oxford. He previously taught at McGill University and the University of Exeter, and spent the spring of 2004 teaching two graduate seminars at the State Islamic University of Indonesia in Jakarta.

He is the author of Hegel’s Idea of Freedom (Oxford, 1999), which won the APSA First Book Prize in Political Theory and the C.B. Macpherson Prize awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association. He is the co-editor, with Will Kymlicka, of Language Rights and Political Theory (Oxford, 2003). His articles include “Political Theory and Language Policy”, Political Theory (2001), “Democratic Secession from a Multinational State”, Ethics (2002), “Liberal Neutrality and Language Policy” Philosophy & Public Affairs (2003), and "Humanist Roots of Linguistic Nationalism", History of Political Thought (2006). He is currently completing a book entitled Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Cultural Rights. He has a longer-term project underway on nationalism and the history of political thought.

Professor Patten currently serves as Associate Chair, Department of Politics, and as member of the Executive Committee of the University Center for Human Values. He is the editor of Philosophy & Public Affairs.

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