Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Hegel in a Protestant cultural context; Part I. Hegel's Württemberg: 'Civil Millenarianism' and the Two Faces of Protestant Civil Piety: 1. The religious culture of Old-Württemberg: (i) Christian eschatology and 'down-to-earth' Pietism; 2. The religious culture of Old-Württemberg: (ii) J. A. Bengel and the theology of the divine economy; 3. The political culture of Old-Württemberg: The Alte Recht tradition; Part II. Württemberg's Hegel: Applied Theology and Social Analysis: 4. The writings of the 1790s: the 'old man' and the 'young Hegel'; Part III. Toward the Phenomenology: Sittlichkeit becomes a problem in social and political theory: 5. Hegel discovers the economy; 6. Sittlichkeit reconsidered: (i) the essay on Natural Law; 7. Sittlichkeit reconsidered: (ii) the essay on Ethical Life; 8. Hegel's conception of the division of labor; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.