Hegel Contra Sociology

This original and challenging book presents a radical revision of traditional assessments of Hegel. Gillian Rose argues that the classical origins of contemporary non-Marxist and Marxist sociology rest on the -neo-Kantian' paradigm and that Hegel's thought anticipates and criticises the limitations of this pardaigm and the problems of methodologism and moralism in sociological method. Hegel's major mature works are expounded in the light og his early radical writings. From this unusal perspective Dr Rose shows that Hegel's speculative discourse is a powerful critique of bourgeois property relations and law, of art and religion as misrepresentation and of the inversions and end of culture. The book concludes with a discussion of the end of philosophy, the repetition of sociology and the culture and fate of Marxism. Contents......Page 8 Preface for 1995 reprint......Page 9 1 The Antinomies of Sociological Reason......Page 10 2 Politics in the Severe Style......Page 57 3 The Philosophy of History......Page 101 4 The Division of Labour and Illusion......Page 130 5 Work and Representation......Page 158 6 Rewriting the Logic......Page 194 7 With What Must the Science End?......Page 213 Notes......Page 230 Select Bibliography......Page 258 H......Page 268 N......Page 269 Z......Page 270 From the author of "Dialectic of Nihilism" (1984), "The Broken Middle" (1992) and "Judaism and Modernity" (1993), this book presents a revision of traditional assessments of Hegel. Presents a radical assessment of Hegel. This title reveals the problems and limitations of sociological method.