Unity, Plurality and Politics

Essays in Honour of F. M. Barnard

J. M. Porter, Richard Vernon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781000706659
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as 'cultural'; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed 'political'. But culture and politics do not, therefore, comprise two wholly distinct zones or orders of experience, the one marked by unity, the other by plurality. Unity and plurality interpenetrate.

These insights, which derive from the thinking of Herder, have been fundamental to the work of F. M. Barnard. In this volume a number of scholars contribute, in Barnardian vein, reflections on the tensions between unity and plurality in the history of ideas. The central underlying question is, in essence, 'what is the context of political life?' The question remains of more importance than any single answer.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Frontispiece
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1. Heine’s ‘Various Concepts of History’
• 2. Unity and Diversity in Politics: Cassirer’s Mythic Mode Revisited
• 3. The Fatherland in Machiavelli
• 4. Rousseau: Will and Politics
• 5. A Public Goods Approach to the Theory of The General Will
• 6. The Rise and Fall of Marxist Ideology in Communist Countries
• 7. The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West
• 8. Moral Pluralism and the Liberal Mind
• 9. Pluralism, Community and Human Nature
• 10. Frederick M. Barnard: A Bibliography
• Index