Finding Freedom

Sara MacDonald is a professor in the Great Ideas Programme at St. Thomas University.

• 1 A Hegelian Contradiction: Seeking a Poetic Solution; 2 Sophocles' Antigone: A Tragic Imbalance; 3 Hegel's Antigone: Ethical Life in the Phenomenology of Spirit; 4 The Philosophy of Right: A New Ethical Order; 5 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Antigone Reformed; 6 Conclusion: Hegel in the Contemporary World

"In using elements of Hegel's aesthetics to criticize the political assertions of The Philosophy of Right, MacDonald is taking up an important and underused strategy." Jeffrey A. Gauthier, University of Portland "Clear, well-written and solidly researched Founded in Freedom puts forward an original thesis concerning Hegel's view of women and the family." Paul Franco, Bowdoin College