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Images of history : Kant, Benjamin, freedom, and the human subject / Richard Eldridge

Author
Eldridge, Richard Thomas, 1953-
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Historical Understanding and Human Action -- 2.Kant's Conjecturalism -- 3.Cultivating the Ethical Commonwealth: Kant's Religion and Reason in History -- 4.Benjamin's Modernism -- 5.Modernist-Materialist Criticism and Human Possibility: Benjamin's One-Way Street and Traces of Free Life -- 6.Self-Unity and History.
Summary
Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, this book argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin recognize this fact.
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ISBN
9780190605346 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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