Title Time, history, and political thought edited by John Robertson

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note on References and the Bibliography -- Introduction: Time, History, and Political Thought -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 1 Out of Time? Eternity, Christology, and Justinianic Law -- 1 Introduction -- 2 'This [Codex], which will Endure for Eternity...' -- 3 'One of the Trinity Suffered in the Flesh' -- 4 Conclusion: 'But who or what Weaves the Tapestry of Temporality?' -- 2 Historicity and Universality in Roman Law before 1600 3 'The Logic of Authority, and the Logic of Evidence' -- 4 Christian Time and the Commonwealth in Early Modern Political Thought -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 5 Politic History -- 6 Hobbes on the Theology and Politics of Time -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 7 The Recourse to Sacred History before the Enlightenment: Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 8 Law, Chronology, and Scottish Conjectural History -- Introduction -- Conjectural History -- Kames on Law -- Chronology -- Stadial Time -- 9 Civilization and Perfectibility: Conflicting Views of the History of Humankind? Introduction -- Two Enlightenment Concepts -- Stadial History and the Civilization Model -- Monboddo's History of Man and the 'Perfectibility' Model -- Conclusion -- 10 Kant on History, or Theodicy for Mortal Gods -- Introduction -- The Eighteenth-Century German Debates -- Kant's Adaptation of Theodicy to Popular Sovereignty -- 11 Law's Histories in Post-Napoleonic Germany -- Introduction -- Appropriating the Past -- In Search of Reality -- Conclusion -- 12 After Historicism: The Politics of Time and History in Twentieth-Century Germany -- Introduction -- Historicism -- Friedrich Meinecke Carl Schmitt -- Reinhart Koselleck -- Hannah Arendt -- 13 The Right to Rebel: History and Universality in the Political Thought of the Algerian Revolution -- Introduction -- Revolution, Repetition and Rupture -- Cassin and Bedjaoui on National Liberation Movements and Rightful Rebellion -- Abbas on Revolution and Beginning -- Fanon on the right to Rebel and the Making of History -- Revolution as Contested Beginning -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity Subject Political science -- Philosophy -- History Time -- Political aspects History -- Political aspects Political science -- Philosophy Time -- Political aspects Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Robertson, John, 1951- editor. ISBN 9781009289399 100928939X 9781009289375 1009289373

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