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Klappentext Through a series of linked studies, this text provides a wide-ranging analysis of the meeting of two vital themes in the French Revolutionary period. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I: Introduction; Part II. J.-J. Rousseau: The Land of Chimeras and the Land Prejudices: 1. History, anti-history and the moral ego; 2. Images of integration; Part III. Immanuel Kant: The Rationalization of the Chimera: 1. Introduction: the German political consciousness; 2. Morality, knowledge and historical vision; 3. Humanity, time and freedom; 4. The ambivalence of progress; 5. Problems of politics; 6. The teleology of practical reason; Part IV. J.G. Fichte: The Chimera Dogmatized: 1. Fichte: introduction and tendencies; 2. Metaphysics and consciousness; 3. Legality and morality; 4. History as logic: the logic of history; 5. Cosmic nationalism; 6. Education and the future community; Part V. G.W.F. Hegel: The Chimera Preserved: 1. Hegel denies the potency of the future; 2. A political context; Part VI: Epilogue: The Future Unredeemed; Bibliography; Index.
