Reason and self-enactment in history and politics : themes and voices of modernity / / F.M. Barnard
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| Autore: |
Barnard F. M (Frederick M.)
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| Titolo: |
Reason and self-enactment in history and politics : themes and voices of modernity / / F.M. Barnard
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xiii, 271 p |
| Disciplina: | 901 |
| Soggetto topico: | History - Philosophy |
| Political science - Philosophy | |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reason and self-enactment in history and politics |
| ISBN: | 1-282-86716-4 |
| 9786612867163 | |
| 0-7735-7672-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825252903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; ; 40.