Table of contents : Introduction: the significance of Hegel's separation of the state and civil society Z. A. Pelczynski; 1. From self-consciousness to community: act and recognition in the master-slave relationship J. M. Bernstein; 2. Hegel, Plato and Greek 'sittlichkeit' M. J. Inwood; 3. Political community and individual freedom in Hegel's philosophy of state Z. A. Pelczynski; 4. Hegel's radical idealism: family and state as ethical communities Merold Westphal; 5. Hegel's concept of the state and Marx's early critique K.-H. Ilting; 6. Towards a new systematic reading of Hegel's Philosophy of right Klaus Harmann; 7. Propaganda and analysis: the background to Hegel's article on the English Reform Bill M. J. Petry; 8. Obligation, contract and exchange: on the significance of Hegel's abstract right Seyla Benhabib; 9. Hegel on work, ownership and citizenship Alan Ryan; 10. Subjectivity and civil society Garbis Kortian; 11. The dialectic of civil society K.-H. Ilting; 12. Hegel on identity and legitimation Raymond Plant; 13. Economy, utility and community in Hegel's theory of civil society A. S. Walton; 14. Nation, civil society, state: Hegelian sources of the Marxian non-theory of nationality Z. A. Pelczynski