Format:
Online-Ressource (286 p)
ISBN:
9780773529656
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas v.40
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- 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.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""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""
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""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""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773576728
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773529656
Additional Edition:
Print version Reason and Self-Enactment in History and Politics : Themes and Voices of Modernity
Language:
English
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