After Kant : : The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought / / Michael Sonenscher.

Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedomIn this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, about what is involved in comparing i...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (584 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Palingenesis, History, and Politics
  • 3 The Coppet Group and the Liberty of the Moderns
  • 4 Germaine de Staël and Modern Politics
  • 5 From the Concept of Palingenesis to the Concept of Enlightenment
  • 6 The Death of God and the Problem of Autonomy
  • 7 The Idea of Autonomy and the Concept of Civil Society
  • 8 From Romanticism to Classicism
  • 9 The Return of Rome
  • 10 Civil Society and the State
  • 11 From Autonomy to Democracy
  • 12 The Politics of Unsocial Sociability
  • Appendix: Lord Acton on the Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns
  • Bibliography
  • Index