Reason and Self-Enactment in History and Politics: Themes and Voices of Modernity

F.M. Barnard

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press 2006

Reason and Self-Enactment in History and Politics

Themes and Voices of Modernity

F.M. Barnard

Volume 40 in the series McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773576728

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F.M. Barnard goes beyond the seventeenth-century understanding of the social contract by making national self-enactment contingent on public reasons for individual liberty within civic mutuality. He examines the possibilities and limits for a self-enacting, principled politics, acknowledging reason and self-enactment as central concepts of historical and political thinking. He argues, however, that reason must be seen as practical reason, which only indirectly acts as a cause, while self-enactment must be understood as operating in relation to reciprocity with the other.

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Barnard F.M. :

F.M. Barnard is professor emeritus of political science at University of Western Ontario and the author of numerous books, including Reason and Self-Enactment in History and Politics: Themes and Voices of Modernity and Herder on Nationality, Humanity, andF.M. Barnard is professor emeritus of political science, University of Western Ontario, and the author of numerous books, including Herder on Nationality, Humanity, and History and Democratic Legitimacy. He has won the International Herder Prize and been

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
From Historical to Revolutionary Consciousness: Four Themes
Reasons in History: Causality of Ends Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Reasons in Politics: Explanation and Commitment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Reasons, Ideology, and Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Revolutionary Purpose: Rational and Natural Necessity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
From Public Reason to Representative Thinking: Four Voices
Practical Reason and Civic Mutuality: Christian Thomasius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Public Reason and Political Self-Mastery: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Rational Principles and Civic Self-Legislation: Immanuel Kant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
External Principles, but no Banisters: Hannah Arendt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Epilogue
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Language: English
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: March 3, 2006
ISBN: 9780773576728