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Dmitri Nikulin - Concept of History, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

Concept of History

Av Dmitri Nikulin

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The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the modern understanding of history that presents it as universal and teleological, progressively moving forward to an end. Although few contemporary philosophers and historians maintain the view that there is strict universality and teleology in history, the remnants of these positions still affect our understanding of history. But if history is not universal and singular, evolving toward an objective universal end, it should be possible to admit of multiple histories, some of which we appropriate as our own. An another important aspect of this book is that if provides an account of history that is itself both historical and rooted in attempts to narrate and explain history from its inception in antiquity. The book seeks to establish features or constituents of history that might be found in any historical account and might themselves be considered historical invariants in history.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-10-19
  • Mått: 152 x 232 x 14 mm
  • Vikt: 380 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 248
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781350064898
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Dmitri Nikulin is Chair of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York, USA. His interests range from ancient and early modern philosophy to the philosophy of dialogue and of literature. He is the author of a number of books including Matter, Imagination and Geometry (2002), On Dialogue (2006), Dialectic and Dialogue (2010), and Comedy, Seriously (2014). He is also the editor of and contributor to The Other Plato (2012) and Memory: A Philosophical History ( 2015).

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Nikulin’s book is a remarkable effort of scholarship. He presents a compelling argument for how the very conception of history with which we operate is itself a historical product that emerged as a practice through a process of assimilation and differentiation from other practices and forms of discourse … Thus even if one disagrees with the conclusions the author reaches, it is hard to see how anyone could write about the philosophy of history without somehow acknowledging and confronting the conceptual advancements this book sets forth.

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