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Reason and self-enactment in history and politics : themes and voices of modernity / F.M. Barnard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnard, F. M. (Frederick M.)
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 40.
- McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 40
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 271 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86716-4
- 9786612867163
- 0-7735-7672-X
- OCLC:
- 923235003
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