Reason and Self-Enactment in History and Politics: Themes and Voices of Modernity
ISBN: 9780773576728
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
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Subjects: History -- Philosophy; Political science -- Philosophy;

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.

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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