AFTER HEGEL. TOTALITY AND SOCIETY

The present article addresses the question of the relationship between the Constitution of the State and the freedom of the individual in the light of the recent book by professor Giuseppe Duso Liberta e Costituzione in Hegel, an essay regarding Hegel's political thinking and particularly on his Philosophy of Right. By trying to sum up Hegel's complex argument about sovereignty and government, this article aims to highlight an historical and theoretical problem: with the end of the Jus Publicum Europaeum something has changed in the conceiving of the relation between State and civil society. It seems nowadays very hard to figure out government without sovereignty because of the difficult to imagine a political functioning within the "totality" brought about by the age of globalization and by the crisis of the national States.