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Nothing But History: Reconstruction and Extremity After Metaphysics

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Surveying two centuries of philosophical writing, this text offers a guide to the philosophy of history before the recent challenges associated with deconstructive postmodernism. The book then argues for a moderate intellectual tradition in which historical knowledge continues to play a crucial role in the conduct of human affairs. This account of historicism explores the ideas of its major 19th-century representatives and foils, including Hegel, Dilthey and Nietzsche. The book's account of such 20th-century thinkers as ...

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Nothing But History: Reconstruction and Extremity After Metaphysics 2007, Davies Group Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781888570991

Hardcover

Nothing But History: Reconstruction and Extremity After Metaphysics 1995, University of California Press

ISBN-13: 9780520200807

Hardcover