Hegel e il Concetto di Società Civile

Civil society is one of the most relevant concepts defined by Hegel’s philosophy of law. Analysing the material and symbolic layers that create the “system of needs”, Hegel enters a dialogue with political economics and foregrounds the constitutive features of the modern bourgeois society embodied as a distinct existential sphere by the representative political state. The concepts of market, contract, machine, abstract labour, the circulation of goods, ownership, land and possession are investigated as essential elements of the social experience of modernity. They consolidate the original tension between the public and the private, the general and the particular, the abstract and the concrete, the form and the content.