Hegel And The Freedom Of Moderns by Domenico Losurdo
A critical reexamination of a canonical German idealist that argues his celebrated account of modern freedom—centered on individual conscience, ethical life, and the constitutional state—coexists with and at times rationalizes structures of domination such as slavery, colonialism, and political exclusion. Through close textual reading and historical contextualization, the work exposes tensions between universalist rhetoric and particularist practices, showing how philosophical moves in the dialectic (including the master–slave relation) and the privileging of order over radical political equality produce a formalized freedom that is limited in substance. The book contends that recognizing these contradictions is essential for a genuinely emancipatory critique of modernity and for understanding how ideas of liberty can become complicit in preserving existing hierarchies.
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