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Palingenesis, history and politics -- Paul Chenavard and the Pantheon -- The troglodytes, the Hebrew republic and the Germanic peoples -- Immanuel Kant and the future as history -- Kant's critics -- Ballanche, Quinet and the end of history -- Industry and individuality -- The Coppet group and the liberty of the moderns -- The ancients, the moderns and the concept of perfectibility -- The division of labour -- Positive and negative liberty -- Roman law and its legacy -- The federal alternative -- Germaine de Sta el and modern politics -- Germaine de Sta el and Wilhelm von Humboldt -- Enthusiasm, the imagination and the nature of modern politics -- From the concept of palingenesis to the concept of enlightenment -- Kant, palingenesis and equality -- Constituent power and the politics of reform -- Kant and Enlightenment -- The death of God and the problem of autonomy -- Germaine de Sta el and the death of God -- The concept of autonomy -- Rousseau, Mendelssohn and Kant -- Autonomy and the imagination -- Friedrich Schiller and the idea of aesthetic education -- The idea of autonomy and the concept of civil society -- Disciplining the uncontrolled natural will -- Fichte and the problem of autonomy -- Schelling and subjectivity -- From autonomy to civic humanism -- Hegel and civil society -- Hegelian political economy : Stein and Dietzel -- Rudolf von Jhering and the rule of law -- Georg Jellinek and the concept of sovereignty -- From romanticism to classicism -- Humanitarianism, Hegelianism and Saint-Simonianism -- Victor Cousin and the impersonality of reason -- Fran cois Guizot and the history of civilization -- Hegelians and Saint-Simonians -- Fortoul, Sainte-Beuve and Siey es -- The return of Rome -- Symbols, enthusiasm and culture -- The limits of rationality -- Cyprien Desmarais and the dilemmas of the modern age -- Jules Michelet and Edgar Quinet -- The romantic Renaissance -- Civil society and the state -- Towards a new synthesis : Heinrich Ahrens and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause -- Johann Kaspar Bluntschli and the theory of the modern state -- Heinrich von Treitschke and the liberal foundations of Realpolitik -- Ferdinand Lassalle and the politics of reform -- Otto von Gierke and the concept of the Genossenschaft -- From autonomy to democracy -- Felix Esquirou de Parieu and the principles of political science -- The origins of the Whig interpretation of history -- James Reddie and the Adam Smith problem -- Henry Sumner Maine and the properties of Roman law -- The politics of unsocial sociability -- History and normativity -- Joseph-Marc Hornung and Roman history -- Henry Maine and the history of the troglodytes -- Words that end in-ism -- Henry Michel and the politics of unsocial sociability -- Appendix. Lord Acton on the Romans, the Germans, and the moderns. |
