1. PRÉCIS IMAGES OF HISTORY: KANT, BENJAMIN, FREEDOM, AND THE HUMAN SUBJECT.
ABSTRACT: My fundamental motivation in writing Images of History was to avoid some forms of hubris and despair that trouble contemporary philosophy and to develop instead a picture of human life in historical time. According to this picture, we live amid institutional and practical inheritances we c...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 408 - 413 |
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