Title: Reason and self-enactment in history and politics : themes and voices of modernity /
Authors: Barnard, F. M.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: History Philosophy; Political science Philosophy
Abstract: "F. M. Barnard stresses that unitary truths and moral perfectionism are not the concerns of politics. Reappraising basic political principles and constructs, he argues for bridging differences among a plurality of truths and forming practical judgments by the cultivation of a sense of situational appropriateness."--Jacket.
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.