The illusion of history : time and its absence in the radical political imagination.

Abstract

This thesis is a study of the imaginative rationale governing three figureheads of the radical political imagination, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx and Michel Foucault." "[It] focuses upon Kant’s contribution to political and moral philosophy in the limited sense of its critical functions, and, as such, concentrates upon the impairment such a radical manifestation of this critical position can exact upon history.