Love and Politics: Re-interpreting Hegel, Alice Ormiston, SUNY series in Hegelian Studies; Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004, pp. ix, 164.

John, Paul, George and Ringo remind us that “all you need is love.” I suspect most would agree with The Beatles when, pausing in our scholarly endeavours, we glance about at the gloomy train wreck of many a personal relationship. When we return to our vocation's most gripping questions—How are community and individual autonomy to be harmonized? How is reason to be satisfied and yet ordinary emotional experience affirmed? How can democratic institutions be strengthened against technocratic thinking and control?—love is no doubt put aside and the serious work of theorizing real solutions begins. Ormiston's project is to rescue love as a solution to just such questions.