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.
ISBN:
9780773576728
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Series:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas ; v.40
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: FROM HISTORICAL TO REVOLUTIONARY CONSCIOUSNESS: FOUR THEMES -- 1 Reasons in History: Causality of Ends -- 2 Reasons in Politics: Explanation and Commitment -- 3 Reasons, Ideology, and Politics -- 4 Revolutionary Purpose: Rational and Natural Necessity -- PART II: FROM PUBLIC REASON TO REPRESENTATIVE THINKING: FOUR VOICES -- 5 Practical Reason and Civic Mutuality: Christian Thomasius -- 6 Public Reason and Political Self-Mastery: Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- 7 Rational Principles and Civic Self-Legislation: Immanuel Kant -- 8 External Principles but no Banisters: Hannah Arendt -- Epilogue: Highlights without Footnotes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Reason and Self-Enactment in History and Politics also offers a reappraisal of basic political principles and constructs. Barnard argues for bridging differences among a plurality of truths and forming practical judgments through cultivation of a sense of situational appropriateness.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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