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Thinking Past a Problem

Essays on the History of Ideas

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-7146-8042-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
Erscheinungstermin: 30.01.2000
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Professor King's concept of the philosophy of history leads him to offer this demonstration of the incoherence, even absurdity, of the notion that the past can have nothing to teach us - whether posed by those who argue that history is "unique" or that it is merely "contextual".

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  • Artikelnummer: 9780714680422
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-7146-8042-2
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
  • Erscheinungstermin: 30.01.2000
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2000
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 435 g
  • Seiten: 352
  • Format (B x H x T): 144 x 216 x 26 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

King, Preston

King, Professor Preston

Thinking past a problem; the 20th century - a history of the history of ideas; Michael Oakeshott and historical particularism; Skinner - the theory of context and the case of Hobbes; Hobbes - texts and contexts; historical contextualism - the new historicism? historical contextualism - revisited; Alasdair MacIntyre - rationalism and tradition; history via hypothesis; an ideological fallacy; ideology as politics.

Professor King's concept of the philosophy of history leads him to offer this demonstration of the incoherence, even absurdity, of the notion that the past can have nothing to teach us - whether posed by those who argue that history is "unique" or that it is merely "contextual".

This is a collection of Professor Preston King's essays on the history of ideas.