Reason and self-enactment in history and politics themes and voices of modernity
Title:
Reason and self-enactment in history and politics themes and voices of modernity
Author:
Barnard, F. M. (Frederick M.)
ISBN:
9780773576728
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Publication Information:
Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 271 p.)
Series:
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 40
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 40.
Contents:
Reasons in history : causality of ends -- Reasons in politics : explanation and commitment -- Reasons, ideology, and politics -- Revolutionary purpose : rational and natural necessity -- Practical reason and civic mutuality : Christian Thomasius -- Public reason and political self-mastery : Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Rational principles and civic self-legislation : Immanuel Kant -- External principles but no banisters : Hannah Arendt.
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Electronic Access:
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