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Author Ferry, Luc.

Title Rights : the new quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns / Luc Ferry ; translated by Franklin Philip
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1990]
©1990

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Description vii, 151 pages ; 23 cm
Series Political philosophy ; 1
Ferry, Luc. Philosophie politique. English ; 1
Contents Part one. The Rejection of historicist modernity : Leo Strauss: Preamble : historicism and positivism -- 1. The Three waves of modernity: the dissolution of philosophy into historicism -- 2. The Limits of Strauss's critique of moderntiy : German idealism and the plurality of modern philosophies of history -- Part two. The Preconditions for a nonhistoricist modernity : the young Fichte: Preamble : fichte's critique of metaphysics and the basis of natural right -- 3. The Antinomy of realism and idealism -- 4. The Deduction of rights as an area of intersubjectivity -- Conclusion From the critique of historicism to the critical philosophy of history
Analysis Politics Philosophy
Notes Translation of: Le droit
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-144) and index
Notes Translation of: Philosophie politique 1. Le Droit : la nouvelle querelle des Anciens et des Modernes
Spine title: Political philosophy 1
Subject Historicism.
History -- Philosophy.
Author Philip, Franklin (trans)
LC no. 89020335
ISBN 0226244717 (alk. paper)
Other Titles Droit. English
Political philosophy 1