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<p>Acknowledgements ix</p> <p>Citations and Abbreviations x</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p><b>Part I Hegel—Self-Transcending Immanence 15</b></p> <p><b>1 Hegel in Contemporary Political Philosophy 17</b></p> <p>Introduction 17</p> <p>Evolutionary Social Practices: Autonomy through Sociality 19</p> <p>Revolutionary Radical Act: Autonomy against Sociality 27</p> <p>Conclusion 38</p> <p><b>2 Consciousness and Freedom: Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit 43</b></p> <p>Introduction 43</p> <p>Nothing Is Infinite: Science of Logic 45</p> <p>Infinite Self?]Consciousness: Phenomenology of Spirit 62</p> <p>Beyond Nothing and the Unfathomable 89</p> <p>Conclusion 93</p> <p><b>3 Society and Freedom: Philosophy of Right 103</b></p> <p>Introduction 103</p> <p>The Subject and Substance of Politics 104</p> <p>The Institutions of Ethical Life: Family, Civil Society, and State 115</p> <p>The Limits of Self-Transcending Immanence 118</p> <p>Conclusion 124</p> <p><b>Part II Augustine—Self-Immanenting Transcendence 129</b></p> <p><b>4 Augustine in Contemporary Political Theology 131</b></p> <p>Introduction 131</p> <p>Ontological Peace: Transcendence against Liberalism 133</p> <p>Ordered Love: Transcendence for Liberalism 144</p> <p>Conclusion 151</p> <p><b>5 Conversion and Freedom: Confessions 155</b></p> <p>Introduction 155</p> <p>Conversion of the Will: Conflict and Intervention 160</p> <p>Conversion of the Will: Community and Intervention 169</p> <p>Conversion of Creation: Christ as Intervention 178</p> <p>Conclusion 185</p> <p><b>6 Society and Freedom: City of God 192</b></p> <p>Introduction 192</p> <p>Earthly City and the Lust for Domination 198</p> <p>Justice and Res Publica 205</p> <p>Justice, Love, and Sacrifice 208</p> <p>Love and the World 215</p> <p>Conclusion 222</p> <p>Conclusion 230</p> <p>Index 239</p>

<b>Geoffrey Holsclaw</b> is an Affiliate Professor of Theology and Director of Master of Arts in Theology and Mission at Northern Seminary. He is the co-author of <i>Prodigal Christianity</i> (2013), as well as the author of articles in theology and political philosophy, examining major figures such as Hobbes, Badiou and ?i?ek, and integrating Eucharistic and Trinitarian themes to political practice.

<p><i>Transcending Subjects: Augustine, Hegel and Theology </i>connects the seminal figures of Hegel and Augustine around the theme of subjectivity, with consideration toward the theology and politics of freedom.</p> <p>After the demise of Kantian liberalism and secularism, scholars are returning to Hegel as the first great post-secular critic of Enlightenment liberalism. As a result of this return, and Hegel’s influence in philosophy and theology, those who seek to understand and engage modern theology and politics must be familiar with Hegel. However, Holsclaw argues that such a return to Hegel should only come <i>after</i> a deeper return to Augustine’s theological and philosophical perspective. </p> Without polemicizing the difference between transcendence and immanence, Holsclaw takes the often daunting figures of Hegel and Augustine and clearly shows how they articulate two fundamental options from which theology and politics develop: the former oriented toward immanence and the latter toward transcendence.  In addition to providing a new interpretation of major works of Hegel and Augustine, Holsclaw engages recent interpretations of Hegel, by scholars such as Pippin and ?i?ek, and Augustine, by scholars such as Milbank and Gregory, with the goal of reorienting theology and the politics of freedom around a subjectivity that is transcended.

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