LOVE AND POLITICS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Hegel in the Context of Modernity -- 1. "The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate": Toward a Reconsideration of the Role of Love in Hegel -- INTRODUCTION -- HEGEL'S CRITIQUE OF REFLECTIVE RATIONALITY -- LOVE AS THE OVERCOMING OF REFLECTIVE RATIONALITY -- THE FAILURE OF LOVE AS OVERCOMING -- CONCLUSION: LOVE, WILL, AND THE TASK OF THE MATURE PHILOSOPHY -- 2. From Christianity to Conscience: The Role of Love in Hegel's Phenomenology -- TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF UNITY: HEGEL AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL INTUITION -- PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT: THE JOURNEY OF THE MODERN WILL -- CONCLUSION: THE INADEQUACY OF INTUITION AS A PHILOSOPHICAL STANDPOINT -- APPENDIX: THE NEGATIVE TRAJECTORY OF ENLIGHTENMENT CONSCIOUSNESS -- 3. Philosophy of Right: The Final Reconciliation of Love and Reason -- THE PHILOSOPHICAL STANDPOINT: FROM INTUITION TO NOTION -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPERIENCE AND NOTIONAL PHILOSOPHY -- LOVE AND LOGIC IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT -- APPENDIX: HEGEL AND THE WOMAN QUESTION -- 4. The Historical "Failure" of Ethical Life: A View from within Hegel -- THE HISTORICAL "FAILURE" OF ETHICAL LIFE: THE SPLIT BETWEEN LOVE AND THE WILL -- HEGEL'S EXPLANATION OF THE "FAILURE" -- HEGEL'S EXPLANATION AND THE PROBLEMS OF OUR TIME -- 5. Hegel and the Dual Task of Today -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.