ADRIANO CARVALHEIRO

This research project investigates the Hegelian concept of sovereignty through the analysis of the tripartition of powers (Gewaltenteilung) in the Elements of the Philosophy of Right and in the Lectures on the Philosophy of Right. In opposition to readings that tend to attribute sovereignty to only one of the three powers, it is hypothesized that sovereignty should be understood as a set of mediating processes between civil society and the political institutions of the state through which the people are constituted. The succession of Hegelian expositions of the tripartition of powers in this context offers the privileged field of objects to be analyzed, insofar as, between the Elements and the Lectures, there seems to be a progressive unfolding of that concept of sovereignty. Therefore, the Lectures on the Philosophy of Right in this research will be investigated not only as mere additions to the Elements, nor as an ideological field of political opinions, but as valid objects of analysis for the genesis and development of this political concept of the author. Since such a concept appears in the context of the exposition of the tripartition of powers (Gewaltenteilung) of (...).