Hegel and the Logical Structure of Love: An Essay on Sexualities, Family and the Law [Paperback]

First published in 1999, this is an interesting and significantly valuable example of how Hegels Logic can be applied to his own interpretation of his time to produce a contemporary Hegelian view of our world and its problems. The authors show that by the logic of the family, as conceived by Hegal, contemporary views about same sec and single parent families can be justified and defunded. The male-dominance and heterosexual orientation taken for granted by Hegals own world is not mandated by the Logic. I find their argument completely convincing. They demonstrate beyond dispute that Hegels speculative philosophy remains relevant for us, a very fruitful in its applications.

1. Introduction.  2. The Essential Nature and Current Condition of Modernity.  3. The Modern Turn to Speculative Philosophy.  4. The Development of the Notion in Hegels Logic.  5. The Judgment, The Syllogism and Objectivity in Hegels Logic.  6. The Categories of Logic and Real Philosophy.  7. The Categorical Syllogism and the Concepts of Family, Love and Intersubjective Identity.  8. The Family and Personality: Family Capital, Children and the Familys Dissolution.  9. Sexism, Heteronormativity and Plural Sexualities.  10. The Family and the Law.

First published in 1999, this is an interesting and significantly valuable example of how Hegels Logic can be applied to his own interpretation of his time to produce a contemporary Hegelian view of our world and its problems.