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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02380-9 (cloth)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226023946.001.0001

Originally published as L’effectif et le rationnel. Hegel et l’esprit objectif

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Names: Kervégan, Jean-François, author. | Ginsburg, Daniela, translator. | Shuster, Martin, translator.

Title: The actual and the rational : Hegel and objective spirit / Jean-François Kervégan ; translated by Daniela Ginsburg and Martin Shuster.

Other titles: Effectif et le rationnel. English

Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Originally published: Paris : Librairie philosphique J. Vrin. © 2008 under title L’effectif et le rationnel: Hegel et l’esprit objectif.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017059969 | ISBN 9780226023809 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226023946 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. | Law—Philosophy. | Political science—Philosophy. | Objectivity. | Subjectivity.

Classification: LCC K230.H432 K4713 2018 B2948 | DDC 193—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017059969

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