Charles Taylor, Hegel and Modern Society
Taylor, Charles. Hegel and Modern Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
"It's a book about my two least favorite things!"
No, Hegel knows it's impossible that I should approve of my society, and Taylor makes a pretty good case that he at least thought through some of the problems. It is short and lucid and only occasionally seems dated by its references to those kids who want to "drop out" into nature, so as to avoid the "system," you know, and by its periodic emphasis on the Soviet Union. Because, you know, people are really unhappy in the Soviet Union.
"It's a book about my two least favorite things!"
No, Hegel knows it's impossible that I should approve of my society, and Taylor makes a pretty good case that he at least thought through some of the problems. It is short and lucid and only occasionally seems dated by its references to those kids who want to "drop out" into nature, so as to avoid the "system," you know, and by its periodic emphasis on the Soviet Union. Because, you know, people are really unhappy in the Soviet Union.
