Reason And Self-enactment in History And Politics
Subtitle: Themes And Voices of Modernity (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: May 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780773529656
Subjects: Political science & theory; Social & political philosophy; General; Political; Philosophy; History; Political science
Description: "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.