Russ, Andrew2011-05-132011-05-132007http://hdl.handle.net/2440/63570This 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.Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 contributions in political science; Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 contributions in political science; Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 contributions in political science; Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 influence; world historyThe illusion of history : time and its absence in the radical political imagination.Time and its absence in the radical political imagination.Thesis20101109162020