Idealism, Politics and History: Sources of Hegelian Thought (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics) - Hardcover

Kelly, George Armstrong

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521075106 ISBN 13: 9780521075107

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1969

Synopsis

In Idealism, Politics and History, Mr Kelly provides a wide-ranging but careful scholarly analysis of the meeting of two vital themes in the French Revolutionary period: intellectual and moral perceptions of history, and the patterns of political systems. He argues that a close exploration of the former is critical to our understanding of political philosophy at the end of the Age of Reason. The author traces his central preoccupations in a series of linked studies of Rousseau, Kant, Fichte and Hegel. Each essay is in its own right an important contribution to the history of political ideas. Cumulatively, they furnish a context of thought in which Hegel's system of thought can be clarified and reinterpreted. Mr Kelly thus succeeds not only in conveying an appreciation of the connection between philosophy and politics in Hegel, but in tracing the stages of an entire school of interpretation.

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Mr Kelly provides a wide-ranging but careful scholarly analysis of the meeting of two vital themes in the French Revolutionary period: intellectual and moral perceptions of history, and the patterns of political systems. The author traces his central preoccupations in a series of linked studies of Rousseau, Kant, Fichte and Hegel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0521075106
• ISBN 13: 9780521075107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400