Klaus Vieweg: "When Louis XIV, the French king, was asked what the state was, he used to say 'I am the state'. For Hegel, now everyone ... every member of civil society, every citizen can say that, i.e. in Hegel the state is firstly not an institution, but every citizen in his or her status as a political subject. And then one can no longer speak of substantiation.... and secondarily, we agree, it's about reasonably designed institutions which of course also make up the state. But I think you shouldn't forget this other dimension."
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Ceremony in the city palace for the opening of the new Hegel Museum (German).
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