Political Investigations - Hegel, Marx and Arendt (Paperback)

In this innovative book, Robert Fine reviews three great studies of modern political life: Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Marx's Capital and Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism.. By examining the three as a single "living unity", the author finds that all three texts emerge as:
* critical - contrasting the promises of equality of modern politics with a dirtier reality
* empirical - analysing the actual forms of modern politics
* scientific - not content merely with describing external appearances
* dynamic - concerned with the direction of modern politics
* unmasking - addressing the illusions of modern politics and the illusion of unmasking this.

The originality of this book lies in its radical reinterpretation of these individual texts which frees them from their intellectual isolation and reads them together as a living unity. In Fine's account all three emerge as formative works of critical theory whichd succeed in sustaining the great promises of modern politics - freedom, equality, solidarity, the new - alongside thedd grubbier reality of domination and violence.