Right Queer: Hegel’s Philosophy of Marriage
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1. right queer? T he terms of contemporary debates about marriage bear an uncanny resemblance to those outlined by G. F. W. Hegel in his Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, or Foundations of the Philosophy of Right, published in 1821.1 Unlike any other philosopher, Hegel triangulates marriage between love and contract in ways that still resonate today. As an agreement made by rational consent of both parties and recognized by civil law, so he argues, marriage presupposes two autonomous, rights-bearing subjects together with the political and social structures of recognition—in short, what he calls the state—that this conception of subjectivity entails. And
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