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Rethinking Hobbes and Kant - The Role and Consequences of Assumption in Political Theory (Paperback)
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Rethinking Hobbes and Kant - The Role and Consequences of Assumption in Political Theory (Paperback)
Series: Rethinking Political and International Theory
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Rethinking Hobbes and Kant argues that predominant approaches to
the theoretical relationship between Hobbes and Kant have reached
conclusions that were pre-digested in assumptions about the 'isms'
which these two writers are propounding. Chou shows how these
assumptions have inhibited commentators from recognising the
affinities between Hobbes's and Kant's political philosophies, or,
if they have, prevented them from providing a plausible explanation
of those affinities. To provide a fresh understanding of the
relation between Hobbes and Kant, this book examines and compares
what they actually wrote about some central conceptions in
political theory, as it becomes visible once the assumptions out of
which they are formed are set aside. Chou argues that what matters
is that that we reflect upon our own assumptions, and that we have
at least some conscious awareness that the assumptions of our day
were not held all the time and everywhere, and that we do not reify
them into crude models which distort the thought of the past and
the present in equal measure. This book therefore seeks to bring
into the arena of conscious thought assumptions which are deeply
rooted in many modern minds and which work to distort many current
studies of the relationship between Hobbes' and Kant's political
philosophies, with negative consequences for the understanding of
Hobbes, of Kant, and of politics itself. Providing a fresh
understanding of the relation between Hobbes and Kant, this book
will be of great use for graduates and scholars of Political
Theory, Philosophy and Political Sociology.
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