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After Kant - The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought (Paperback)
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Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets
of arguments over history, morality, and freedom In 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 individual human lives to
the whole of human history. How can we compare them, or understand
the results of the comparison? Kant’s question injected a new,
future-oriented dimension into existing discussions of prevailing
norms, challenging their orientation toward the past. This reversal
made Kant’s question a bridge between three successive sets of
arguments: between the supporters of the ancients and moderns, the
classics and romantics, and the Romans and the Germans. Sonenscher
argues that the genealogy of modern political ideologies—from
liberalism to nationalism to communism—can be connected to the
resulting discussions of time, history, and values, mainly in
France but also in Germany, Switzerland, and Britain, in the period
straddling the French and Industrial revolutions. What is the
genuinely human content of human history? Everything begins
somewhere—democracy with the Greeks, or the idea of a res publica
with the Romans—but these local arrangements have become vectors
of values that are, apparently, universal. The intellectual
upheaval that Sonenscher describes involved a struggle to close the
gap, highlighted by Kant, between individual lives and human
history. After Kant is an examination of that struggle’s enduring
impact on the history and the historiography of political thought.
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Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Michael Sonenscher
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
584 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-24563-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-691-24563-0 |
Barcode: |
9780691245638 |
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