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In line with the study's title, modes of cognition were linked with underlying interests or motivations, namely, the technical interest in control, the practical interest in understanding, and the emancipatory interest in self-knowledge and free self-realization. These interests, in turn, were presented as universal species dispositions (said to be endowed with a quasi-transcendental status as well as being involved in an historical learning process). " 5 The years following publication of Knowledge and Human Interests brought several changes in the study's framework.
The image of Hegel emerging from this endeavor is not that of the spokesman of "identity philosophy" nor that of the defender of a unified "state" guided by bureaucracy seen as "uni- Page xvi versal class" (or as embodiment of the general will). " The seventh chapter examines Hegel's conception of the state as presented in his Philosophy of Right, with particular emphasis on the role of Sittlichkeit or ''ethical life" as human and social bond. In Hegel's portrayal, public Sittlichkeit in the modern sense differs from two alternative modes of social interaction: namely, the close-knit and homogeneous "ethical substantiality" characteristic of the ancient polis, on the one hand, and on the other, the atomistic individualism and contractarianism typical of laissez-faire economics (and acknowledged by Hegel on the level of "civil society").
Philosophically, our age is said to witness the end of metaphysics, that is, of the grand totalizing systems anchored in logos, reason or the synthesizing power of subjectivitysystems which again are chiefly of European origin. Yet, neither level shows signs of a simple reversal. Politically, the end of supremacy has by no means cancelled Europe's political legacymanifest in modern political structures and an array of political doctrines ranging from liberalism to socialism. Similarly, contrary to rash expectations, metaphysics does not simply give way to positivism or empiricismwhich, on the contrary, are afflicted by their own malaise.
