The Liberal Interpretation of Hegel and of "Bundesrepublik" State Law. From Joachim Ritter to Ernst-Wolfgang Bockenforde

In the decades after World War II, Joachim Ritter renewed the liberal interpretation of Hegel's political philosophy, emphasizing the dichotomy between civil society and State. Following Ritter's direction, the public law scholar Ernst-Wolfgang Bockenforde has compared Hegel's State law doctrine with that of the present-day democratic States: some differences are undeniable, but Hegel puts fundamental questions that are not obsolete at all.