Transcending Subjects: Augustine, Hegel and Theology engages the seminal figures of Hegel and Augustine around the theme of subjectivity, with consideration toward the theology and politics of freedom.
Acknowledgements ix
Citations and Abbreviations x
Introduction 1
Part I Hegel—Self-Transcending Immanence 15
1 Hegel in Contemporary Political Philosophy 17
Introduction 17
Evolutionary Social Practices: Autonomy through Sociality 19
Revolutionary Radical Act: Autonomy against Sociality 27
Conclusion 38
2 Consciousness and Freedom: Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit 43
Introduction 43
Nothing Is Infinite: Science of Logic 45
Infinite Self?]Consciousness: Phenomenology of Spirit 62
Beyond Nothing and the Unfathomable 89
Conclusion 93
3 Society and Freedom: Philosophy of Right 103
Introduction 103
The Subject and Substance of Politics 104
The Institutions of Ethical Life: Family, Civil Society, and State 115
The Limits of Self-Transcending Immanence 118
Conclusion 124
Part II Augustine—Self-Immanenting Transcendence 129
4 Augustine in Contemporary Political Theology 131
Introduction 131
Ontological Peace: Transcendence against Liberalism 133
Ordered Love: Transcendence for Liberalism 144
Conclusion 151
5 Conversion and Freedom: Confessions 155
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