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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460247103321

Autore

Barnard F. M (Frederick M.)

Titolo

Reason and self-enactment in history and politics [[electronic resource] ] : themes and voices of modernity / / F.M. Barnard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-86716-4

9786612867163

0-7735-7672-X

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 271 p

Collana

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; ; 40

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

Political science - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.