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After Kant : The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought / Michael Sonenscher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sonenscher, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy--History.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A reflection on the legacy of money, law, and history in modern political thought"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Palingenesis, history and politics
- Paul Chenavard and the Pantheon
- The troglodytes, the Hebrew republic and the Germanic peoples
- Immanuel Kant and the future as history
- Kant's critics
- Ballanche, Quinet and the end of history
- Industry and individuality
- The Coppet group and the liberty of the moderns
- The ancients, the moderns and the concept of perfectibility
- The division of labour
- Positive and negative liberty
- Roman law and its legacy
- The federal alternative
- Germaine de Staël and modern politics
- Germaine de Staël and Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Enthusiasm, the imagination and the nature of modern politics
- From the concept of palingenesis to the concept of enlightenment
- Kant, palingenesis and equality
- Constituent power and the politics of reform
- Kant and Enlightenment
- The death of God and the problem of autonomy
- Germaine de Staël and the death of God
- The concept of autonomy
- Rousseau, Mendelssohn and Kant
- Autonomy and the imagination
- Friedrich Schiller and the idea of aesthetic education
- The idea of autonomy and the concept of civil society
- Disciplining the uncontrolled natural will
- Fichte and the problem of autonomy
- Schelling and subjectivity
- From autonomy to civic humanism
- Hegel and civil society
- Hegelian political economy : Stein and Dietzel
- Rudolf von Jhering and the rule of law
- Georg Jellinek and the concept of sovereignty
- From romanticism to classicism
- Humanitarianism, Hegelianism and Saint-Simonianism
- Victor Cousin and the impersonality of reason
- François Guizot and the history of civilization
- Hegelians and Saint-Simonians
- Fortoul, Sainte-Beuve and Sieyes
- The return of Rome
- Symbols, enthusiasm and culture
- The limits of rationality
- Cyprien Desmarais and the dilemmas of the modern age
- Jules Michelet and Edgar Quinet
- The romantic Renaissance
- Civil society and the state
- Towards a new synthesis : Heinrich Ahrens and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
- Johann Kaspar Bluntschli and the theory of the modern state
- Heinrich von Treitschke and the liberal foundations of Realpolitik
- Ferdinand Lassalle and the politics of reform
- Otto von Gierke and the concept of the Genossenschaft
- From autonomy to democracy
- Felix Esquirou de Parieu and the principles of political science
- The origins of the Whig interpretation of history
- James Reddie and the Adam Smith problem
- Henry Sumner Maine and the properties of Roman law
- The politics of unsocial sociability
- History and normativity
- Joseph-Marc Hornung and Roman history
- Henry Maine and the history of the troglodytes
- Words that end in-ism
- Henry Michel and the politics of unsocial sociability
- Appendix. Lord Acton on the Romans, the Germans, and the moderns.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691245645
- 0691245649
- OCLC:
- 1350093783
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