Several chapters of this book have appeared elsewhere in previous versions. Chapter I contains material from "Hegel and the Crisis of Private Law," which appeared in 10 Cardozo Law Review (1989) and in Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, and David Gray Carlson, eds., Hegel and Legal Theory (New York: Routledge, 1991); Chapter II reworks material published in 4 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (1991); Chapter III reworks and expands material published in 43 University of Toronto Law Journal (1993); Chapter V reworks and expands material published in Stephen Shute, John Gardner, and Jeremy Horder, eds., Action and Value in Criminal Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993); and Chapter VI contains material from "The Ideality of Difference: Toward Objectivity in Legal Interpretation," 11 Cardozo Law Review (1990). I thank the editors and publishers of these volumes for their permission to republish this material.