Discontinuity Pragmatically Framed.
This is an attempt to discover and clarify the philosophical nature of what Eelco Runia claims to be his new and up-to-date philosophy of history, a programme offered in his 2014 book Moved by the Past: Discontinuity and Historical Mutation. His suggestion that his argument is a "dance" is taken ser...
| Published in: | Journal of the Philosophy of History Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 127 - 149 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2017
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