Theses On The Philosophy Of History

  theses on the philosophy of history: On the Concept of History Walter Benjamin, 2016-08-21 On The Concept of History is a politics & social sciences essay written by German philosopher and social science critic Walter Benjamin. On The Concept of History is one of Walter Benjamin's best known, and most controversial works. The politics & social sciences essay is composed of twenty numbered paragraphs in which Benjamin uses poetic and scientific analogies to present a critique of historicism. Walter Benjamin wrote the brief essay shortly before attempting to escape from Vichy France, where French collaborationist government officials were handing over Jewish refugees like Walter Benjamin to the Nazi Gestapo. Walter Benjamin completed On The Concept of History before fleeing to Spain where he unfortunately committed suicide. Benjamin's work is often required textbook reading in various subjects such as humanities, philosophy, and politics & social sciences.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Fire Alarm Michael Lowy, 2016-10-04 This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism—Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an “unclassifiable” philosopher. His essay “On the Concept of History” was written in a state of urgency, as he attempted to escape the Gestapo in 1940, before finally committing suicide. In this scrupulous, clear and fascinating examination of this essay, Michael Löwy argues that it remains one of the most important philosophical and political writings of the twentieth century. Looking in detail at Benjamin’s celebrated but often mysterious text, and restoring the philosophical, theological and political context, Löwy highlights the complex relationship between redemption and revolution in Benjamin’s philosophy of history.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Illuminations Walter Benjamin, 1986 Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Walter Benjamin and Theology Colby Dickinson, Stéphane Symons, 2016-05-19 In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is “related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it.” For a thinker so decisive to critical literary, cultural, political, and aesthetic writings over the past half-century, Benjamin’s relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should, even despite a variety of attempts over the last four decades to illuminate the theological elements latent within his eclectic and occasional writings. Such attempts, though undeniably crucial to comprehending his thought, remain in need of deepened systematic analysis. In bringing together some of the most renowned experts from both sides of the Atlantic, Walter Benjamin and Theology seeks to establish a new site from which to address both the issue of Benjamin’s relationship with theology and all the crucial aspects that Benjamin himself grappled with when addressing the field and operations of theological inquiry.
  theses on the philosophy of history: The Philosophy of History Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1902
  theses on the philosophy of history: History and Freedom Theodor W. Adorno, 2014-11-05 Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors that prevented him from identifying a definitive plan for the future course of history was his feelings of solidarity with the victims and losers. As for the future, the course of events was to remain open-ended; instead of finality, he remained committed to a Hölderlin-like openness. This trace of the messianic has what he called the colour of the concrete as opposed to mere abstract possibility. Early in the 1960s Adorno gave four courses of lectures on the road leading to Negative Dialectics, his magnum opus of 1966. The second of these was concerned with the topics of history and freedom. In terms of content, these lectures represented an early version of the chapters in Negative Dialectics devoted to Kant and Hegel. In formal terms, these were improvised lectures that permit us to glimpse a philosophical work in progress. The text published here gives us an overview of all the themes and motifs of Adorno's philosophy of history: the key notion of the domination of nature, his criticism of the existentialist concept of a historicity without history and, finally, his opposition to the traditional idea of truth as something permanent, unchanging and ahistorical.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Words of Light Eduardo Cadava, 2018-06-05 Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings: the historical and political consequences of technology, the relation between reproduction and mimesis, images and history, remembering and forgetting, allegory and mourning, and visual and linguistic representation. The book establishes the photographic constellation of motifs and themes around which Benjamin organizes his texts and thereby becomes a lens through which we can begin to view his analysis of the convergence between the new technological media and a revolutionary concept of historical action and understanding. Written in the form of theses--what Cadava calls snapshots in prose--the book memorializes Benjamin's own thetic method of writing. It enacts a mode of conceiving history that is neither linear nor successive, but rather discontinuous--constructed from what Benjamin calls dialectical images. In this way, it not only suggests the essential rapport between the fragmentary form of Benjamin's writing and his effort to write a history of modernity but it also skillfully clarifies the relation between Benjamin and his contemporaries, the relation between fascism and aesthetic ideology. It gives us the most complete picture to date of Benjamin's reflections on history.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Walter Benjamin and History Andrew Benjamin, 2005-12-01 The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume to give access to the themes and problems raised by the Theses, providing valuable exegetical and historical work on the text. The essays collected here are all the work of noted Benjamin scholars, and pursue the themes central to the Theses.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Twenty Theses on Politics Enrique Dussel, 2008-12-09 DIVTranslation of a theoretical manifesto by one of Latin America’s leading political philosophers, interpreting the new wave of radicalism in Latin American politics./div
  theses on the philosophy of history: Gadamer and the Transmission of History Jerome Veith, 2015-02-02 Observing that humans often deal with the past in problematic ways, Jerome Veith looks to philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer and his hermeneutics to clarify these conceptions of history and to present ways to come to terms with them. Veith fully engages Truth and Method as well as Gadamer's entire work and relationships with other German philosophers, especially Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger in this endeavor. Veith considers questions about language, ethics, cosmopolitanism, patriotism, self-identity, and the status of the humanities in the academy in this very readable application of Gadamer's philosophical practice.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History Real Fillion, 2008-02-28 Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to understanding history today. Réal Fillion offers a critical exposition of the theses of these three authors on the dynamics and the ends of history, in order to provide an answer to the question: Where are we headed? Grounding his answer in the twin observations that the world is becoming increasingly multicultural and increasingly unified, Fillion reasserts the task of the speculative philosophy of history as it had been understood by German philosophy: the articulation and understanding the historical process as a developmental whole. Fillion's interpretation engages many recent strands of social and political thought in order to provide a new understanding of current events, and possible futures, grounded in the understanding of the dynamics of the past and the present provided by Kant, Hegel, and Marx. The result is a rich and timely answer to the question of where our world is headed today.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Karl Marx's Theory of History Gerald A. Cohen, 2020-05-05 First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement--analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.
  theses on the philosophy of history: The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin David S. Ferris, 2004-03-25 This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical and historical thought. Topics discussed by experts in the field include Benjamin's relation to the avant-garde movements of his time, his theories on language and mimesis, modernity, his significance and relevance to modern cultural studies, and his autobiographical writings. Additional material includes a guide to further reading and a chronology.
  theses on the philosophy of history: A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography Aviezer Tucker, 2011-06-28 A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative. Do we possess knowledge of the past? Do we just have probable beliefs about the past, or is historiography a piece of convincing fiction? The philosophy of history is the direct philosophical examination of history, whether it is necessary or contingent, whether it has a direction or whether it is coincidental, and if it has a direction, what it is, and how and why it is unfolding? The fifty entries in this Companion cover the main issues in the philosophies of historiography and history, including natural history and the practices of historians. Written by an international and multi-disciplinary group of experts, these clearly written entries present a cutting-edge updated picture of current research in the philosophies of historiography and history. This Companion will be of interest to philosophers, historians, natural historians, and social scientists.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Philosophy of History M.C. Lemon, 2003-08-29 An essential introduction to a vast body of writing about history, from classical Greece and Rome to the contemporary world.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Walter Benjamin Howard Caygill, 2020-10-07 This book analyzes the development of Walter Benjamin's concept of experience in his early writings showing that it emerges from an engagement with visual experience, and in particular the experience of colour. It represents Benjamin as primarily a thinker of the visual field.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Berlin Childhood Around 1900 Walter Benjamin, 2006 Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century is translated into English for the first time in book form.
  theses on the philosophy of history: The Moment Heidrun Friese, 2001-01-01 This volume addresses from different perspectives the key questions posed by the moment and thereby elucidates the connection between social theory, philosophy, literary theory and history that are opened by the moment.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Radio Benjamin Walter Benjamin, 2021-12-07 Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in English. This eclectic collection demonstrates the range of Benjamin’s thinking and his enthusiasm for popular sensibilities. His celebrated “Enlightenment for Children” youth programs, his plays, readings, book reviews, and fiction reveal Benjamin in a creative, rather than critical, mode. They flesh out ideas elucidated in his essays, some of which are also represented here, where they cover topics as varied as getting a raise and the history of natural disasters, subjects chosen for broad appeal and examined with passion and acuity. Delightful and incisive, this is Walter Benjamin channeling his sophisticated thinking to a wide audience, allowing us to benefit from a new voice for one of the twentieth century’s most respected thinkers.
  theses on the philosophy of history: The Practice of Conceptual History Reinhart Koselleck, Todd Samuel Presner, 2002 Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. He is the foremost exponent and practitioner of Begriffsgeschichte, a methodology of historical studies exemplified in these 18 essays, which focus on the invention and development of the fundamental concepts underlying and informing a distinctively historical manner of being in the world.
  theses on the philosophy of history: The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt Jens Meierhenrich, Oliver Simons, 2016 The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Uniquely located at the intersection of law, the social sciences, and the humanities, it brings together sophisticated yet accessible interpretations of Schmitt's sprawling thought and complicated biography.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Philosophy for Non-Philosophers Louis Althusser, 2017-02-23 In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser's project. As such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental theses of Althusser's own ideas, and presents a synthesis of his sprawling and disparate philosophical and political writings. Nowhere else does Althusser push the distinction between philosophy and other disciplines as far, or develop in such detail the concept of 'practice'. Rather than a work of 'popular philosophy', Philosophy for Non-philosophers is a continuation and conglomeration of Althusser's thought; a thought whose radicality is still perceptible in those that have followed since. Philosophy for Non-philosophers thus provides a vivid encapsulation of Althusser's seminal influence on the leading thinkers of today, including Ranciere, Badiou, Balibar, and Žižek.
  theses on the philosophy of history: The Dream of a Democratic Culture T. Lacy, 2013-11-26 This book presents a moderately revisionist history of the great books idea anchored in the following movements and struggles: fighting anti-intellectualism, advocating for the liberal arts, distributing cultural capital, and promoting a public philosophy, anchored in mid-century liberalism, that fostered a shared civic culture.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Society Of The Spectacle Guy Debord, 2012-10-01 The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.
  theses on the philosophy of history: End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama, 2006-03-01 Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world. —The Washington Post Book World Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Justifying Historical Descriptions C. Behan McCullagh, 1984-10-25 In common with history, all the social sciences crucially rely on descriptions of the past for their evidence. But when, if ever, is it reasonable to regard such descriptions as true? This book attempts to establish the conditions that warrant belief in historical descriptions. It does so in a non-technical way, analysing numerous illustrations of the different kinds of argument about the past employed by historians and others. The author concludes that no historical description can be finally proved, and that we are only ever justified in believing them for certain practical purposes. This central question has not been addressed in such a thorough and systematic manner before. It draws on recent philosophy of history and will interest philosophers. But the wealth of material and accessibility of the presentation will also make it very valuable for historians and other social scientists concerned with the logic of their disciplines.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Walter Benjamin's Other History Beatrice Hanssen, 2000-12-04 In this study, Beatrice Hanssen unlocks the philosophical and ethical dimensions of the Trauerspiel study, showing how its thematics persisted well into the later writings of the thirties. For by introducing the materialistic category of natural history in The Origin of German Tragic Drama, Benjamin not only criticized idealistic conceptions of history writing but also expressed an ethico-theological call for another kind of history, one no longer anthropocentric in nature. This profound critique of historical thinking, Hanssen shows, went hand in hand with a radical de-limitation of the human subject, informed by his interest in questions about ethics, the law, and justice. Through an analysis of the seemingly innocuous figures of stones, animals, and angels that are scattered throughout his writings, Hanssen reconstructs the often neglected ethical dimension of his historical thought. In the course of doing so, she not only places Benjamin's work in the context of contemporaries such as Adorno, Cohen, Lukacs, Kafka, Kraus, and Heidegger but also demonstrates the persistence of Benjaminian themes in contemporary philosophy and critical theory.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Worldviews Richard DeWitt, 2018-04-16 Winner of the 2018 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title! PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS This is a brilliantly clear introduction (and indeed reframing) of the history and philosophy of science in terms of worldviews and their elements.... In addition, the book is incredibly well-informed from both a scientific and philosophical angle. Highly recommended. Scientific and Medical Network Unlike many other introductions to philosophy of science, DeWitt's book is at once historically informative and philosophically thorough and rigorous. Chapter notes, suggested readings, and references enhance its value. Choice Written in clear and comprehensible prose and supplemented by effective diagrams and examples, Worldviews is an ideal text for anyone new to the history and philosophy of science. As the reader will come to find out, DeWitt is a gifted writer with the unique ability to break down complex and technical concepts into digestible parts, making Worldviews a welcoming and not overwhelming book for the introductory reader. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 28(2) Now in its third edition, Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science strengthens its reputation as the most accessible and teachable introduction to the history and philosophy of science on the market. Geared toward engaging undergraduates and those approaching the history and philosophy of science for the first time, this intellectually-provocative volume takes advantage of its author's extensive teaching experience, parsing complex ideas using straightforward and sensible examples drawn from the physical sciences. Building on the foundations which earned the book its critical acclaim, author Richard DeWitt considers fundamental issues in the philosophy of science through the historical worldviews that influenced them, charting the evolution of Western science through the rise and fall of dominant systems of thought. Chapters have been updated to include discussion of recent findings in quantum theory, general relativity, and evolutionary theory, and two new chapters exclusive to the third edition enrich its engagement with radical developments in contemporary science. At a time in modern history when the nature of truth, fact, and reality seem increasingly controversial, the third edition of Worldviews presents complex concepts with clarity and verve, and prepares inquisitive minds to engage critically with some of the most exciting questions in the philosophy of science.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Frederick Copleston, 2003-01-01 Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has become the classic account for all philosophy scholars and students. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, but also explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.
  theses on the philosophy of history: International Law and the Cold War Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja, Gerry Simpson, Anna Saunders, 2020 This is the first book to examine in detail the relationship between the Cold War and International Law.
  theses on the philosophy of history: The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2021-03-22 Introduction : intimations of the planetary -- The globe and the planet. Four theses; Conjoined histories; The planet : a humanist category -- The difficulty of being modern. The difficulty of being modern; Planetary aspirations : reading a suicide in India; In the ruins of an enduring fable -- Facing the planetary. Anthropocene time -- Toward an anthropological clearing -- Postscript : the global reveals the planetary : a conversation with Bruno Latour.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Thoughts out of Season (Complete) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,
  theses on the philosophy of history: Hegel's Grand Synthesis Daniel Berthold-Bond, 1989-07-03 This book offers the first genuinely systematic treatment of Hegel's eschatology in the literature. It is an investigation into Hegel's project to demonstrate the ultimate unity of thought and being (consciousness and reality, self and world). The author traces the project through Hegel's epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of history. The grand synthesis creates a basic tension, an ambivalence, that reaches its most acute formulation in Hegel's eschatological language of a final completion or fulfillment of history. This conflicts with his dialectic and Heracletian metaphysics of becoming. Berthold-Bond concludes that a substantially new approach to Hegel's eschatology is needed.
  theses on the philosophy of history: 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value Brian Massumi, 2018-09-11 A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms How can we begin to envision a postcapitalist economy without first engineering a radically new concept of value? And with a renewed sense of how and what we collectively value, what would the transition to new social forms look like? According to Brian Massumi, it is time to reclaim value from the capitalist market and the neoliberal reduction of life to “human capital.” It is time to occupy surplus-value for a postcapitalist future. 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value is both a theoretical and practical manifesto. Massumi reexamines ideas about money, exchange, and finance, with special attention to how what we value in experience for quality is economically translated into quantity. He proposes new conceptual tools for understanding value in directly qualitative terms, speculating on how this revaluation of value might practically form the basis of an alter-economy. A promising path, he suggests, might involve emerging blockchain technologies beyond bitcoin. But these must be uprooted from their libertarian origins and redesigned to serve not individual choice but collective creativity, not calculations of self-interest but collaborative speculations on the future to be shared. It is necessary to grasp the specificity of our contemporary neoliberal condition and the ultimately destructive forms of power it mobilizes to better resist their claim on the future. 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value is written to galvanize a radical redefinition of value for a livable postcapitalist future.
  theses on the philosophy of history: The Angel of History Stéphane Mosès, 2009 In The Angel of History, Moses looks at three philosophersFranz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholemwho formulated a new vision of history informed by Jewish messianism in 1920s Germany.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Hegel's Undiscovered Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis Dialectics Leonard F. Wheat, 2012-12-25 For over fifty years, Hegel interpreters have rejected the former belief that Hegel used thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectics. In this incisive analysis of Hegel's philosophy, Leonard F. Wheat shows that the modern interpretation is false. Wheat rigorously demonstrates that there are in fact thirty-eight well-concealed dialectics in Hegel's two most important works--twenty-eight in Phenomenology of Spirit and ten in The Philosophy of History. Wheat also develops other major new insights: • Hegel's chief dialectical format consists of a two-concept thesis, a two-concept antithesis, and a two-concept synthesis that borrows one concept from the thesis and one from the antithesis. • All dialectics are analogically based on the Christian separation-and-return myth: the dialectic separates from and returns to a thesis concept. • Hegel's enigmatic Spirit is a four-faceted, deliberately fictitious, nonsupernatural entity that exists only as an atheistic redefinition of God. • Spirit's divine life begins not with consciousness but with unconsciousness, in the prehuman state of nature-before Spirit acquires its human mind. • Hegel's concept of freedom is not a sociopolitical concept but release from bondage to religious superstition (belief in a supernatural God). • In Hegel's widely misinterpreted master-and-slave parable, the master is God, the slave is man, and the slave's gaining his freedom is man's becoming an atheist. • The standard non-Hegelian base-superstructure interpretation of Marx's dialectics is false. Marx's basic dialectic is actually this: thesis = communal ownership poverty, antithesis = private ownership wealth, synthesis = communal ownership wealth. Wheat also shows that Marx and Tillich, who subtly used Hegelian dialectics in their own works, are the only authors who have understood Hegelian dialectics. Thoroughly researched and exhaustive in detail, this radical reinterpretation of Hegel's philosophy should greatly interest Hegel scholars and students.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation Martin Heidegger, 2016-09-12 A “readable and fluent” translation of a work that demonstrates a crucial shift in Heidegger’s approach to Nietzsche in the late 1930s (Phenomenological Reviews). In Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation, Martin Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier. This evolution in his relationship with Nietzsche has a significant impact on his understandings of the differences between animals and humans, temporality and history, and the Western philosophical tradition developed. With his new reading, Heidegger delineates three Nietzschean modes of history, which should be understood as grounded in the structure of temporality or historicity. He also offers a metaphysical determination of life and the essence of humankind. Despite the fragmentary and disjointed quality of the original lecture notes that comprise this text, Ullrich Hasse and Mark Sinclair deliver a clear and accessible translation.
  theses on the philosophy of history: A History of Philosophy with Especial Reference to the Formation and Development of Its Problems and Conceptions Wilhelm Windelband, 1893
  theses on the philosophy of history: Nietzsche's Philosophy of History Anthony K. Jensen, 2013-07-04 An exposition of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history in its historical context and of its relevance to contemporary theories.
  theses on the philosophy of history: Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves, Seyla Benhabib, 1997 This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of JürgenHabermas's Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, a book that defended the rational potential of themodern age against the depiction of modernity as a spent epoch. The essays (of which four are newlycommissioned, five were published in the journal Praxis International, and one -- by Habermas --first appeared in translation in New Critique) are divided into two sections: Critical Rejoindersand Thematic Reformulations.An opening essay by d'Entrèves sets out the main issues and orients thedebate between Habermas and the postmodernists by identifying two different senses ofresponsibility: a responsibility to act versus a responsibility to otherness (an openness todifference, dissonance, and ambiguity). These are linked with two alternative understandings of theprimary function of language: action-orienting versus world-disclosing. This is a fruitful way oflooking at the issues that Habermas has raised in his attempt to resurrect and complete the projectof Enlightenment.Habermas's essay discusses the main themes of his book in the context of a criticalengagement with neoconservative cultural and political trends. The main body of essays offer aninteresting collection of points of view, for and against Habermas's position by philosophers,social scientists, intellectual historians, and literary critics.SECTIONS & CONTRIBUTORS :Introduction, Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves. Modernity versus Postmodernity, Jürgen Habermas.Critical Rejoinders : Fred Dallmayr. Christopher Norris. David C. Hoy. James Schmidt. JoelWhitebook. Thematic Reformulations : James Bohman. Diana Coole. Jay M. Bernstein. DavidIngram.
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Theses on the Philosophy of History. " Theses on the Philosophy of History " or " On the Concept of History " (German: Über den Begriff der Geschichte) is an essay written in early 1940 by German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin. It is one of Benjamin's best-known, and most controversial works.

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Historicism depicts the “eternal” picture of the past; the historical materialist, an experience with it, which stands alone. He leaves it to others to give themselves to the whore called “Once upon a time” in the bordello of historicism. He remains master of his powers: man enough, to explode the continuum of history.

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Theses on the Philosophy of History. I. The story is told of an automaton constructed in such a way that it could play a winning game of chess, answering each move of an opponent with a countermove. A puppet in Turkish attire and with a hookah in its mouth sat before a chessboard placed on a large table. A system of mirrors created the illusion ...

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unseen hand of theology.6 On Scholem's reading of the theses, the angel of history (in thesis IX) cannot make whole again the fragments of history, and therefore Benjamin must have resort, in the last thesis, to the Messiah, who alone can succeed where the angel must fail-namely, in the redemption of history.7 On this reading, Benjamin appears as a

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Walter Benjamin. (often referred to as) Theses on the Philosophy of History. I. The story is told of an automaton constructed in such a way that it could play a winning game of chess, answering each move of an opponent with a countermove. A puppet in Turkish attire and with a hookah in its mouth sat before a chessboard placed on a large table.

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In his “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (1940), the German-Jewish literary critic Walter Benjamin presents a striking image of the fear that the individual human being had lost control of time in a modernity characterized by the rapid succession of world-changing historical events. Benjamin writes of Paul Klee’s painting “Angelus ...

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1 Sep 2023 · Benjamin, Theses on The Philosophy of History, 1940. Worse still, Benjamin worries that this complacency is a corollary of a certain kind of Marxism. His Theses are an attempt to drive a wedge between this determinist faith in progress and the proper practice of dialectical history. For him, the task of the historian is active and volitional ...

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Theses on the Philosophy of History ates himself from it as far as possible. He regards it as his task to brush history against the grain. The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.

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5 Jun 2023 · Photo of Walter Benjamin in Paris by Gisèle Freund, 1938, via the New York Review of Books. Given that it is one of the central concepts of the Theses, it is worth starting with a basic definition of what historical materialism is.It is the name given to Karl Marx’s theory of history, and it holds that the ultimate cause and moving power of historical events are to be found in the …

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An attempt to define African philosophy can help in understanding philosophy itself. Philosophy can e b defined and at the same time be described as the critical examination of the ideas which men ...

The Twenty-Four Fundamental Theses Of Official Catholic Philosophy
24 May 2021 · understands not only chiefly but exclusively the philosophy of St. Thomas, and that St. Thomas' philosophy stands for at least the twenty-four theses approved and published by the Sacred Congregation of Studies. In this paper we will give a translation of these theses with a very brief explanation of each.

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ideology critique based on the history of jurisprudence, and mutual recognition based on a Hegelian view of appropriation. Rose’s philosophy integrates three key moments of the Frankfurt tradition: a view of the social totality as both an epistemological

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Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln March 2017 CITATION ANALYSIS OF DOCTORAL ... The study analysed 8488 citations appended in the 36 Ph.D. theses of History discipline submitted to Panjab University, Chandigarh, for the award of doctoral degree ...

THESES OF SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY FOR THE CONCLUSIVE …
THESES OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY FOR THE CONCLUSIVE FIRST CYCLE EXAM (2020-2021) 1. HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY 1. Key Platonic teachings in Anthropology, Ethics, Cosmology, Metaphysics, and Politics. 2. The “Search for truth” according to Aristotle: Metaphysics, Book II, Chapter I. 3.

The Militant Listener: Reading Mongane Wally Serote’s ... - JSTOR
Theses on the Philosophy of History. In . Sikhahlel’ u-OR: A Praise Poem for Oliver Tambo, Mongane Wally Serote presents an unflinching yet delicate meandering through the questions, reflections and provo-cations resistance history offers …

M.A. HISTORY - मुंबई विश्वविद्यालय
Philosophy of History does not deal with psychology or sociology for understanding the functions of the mind or an organized society. Its concern is with the historical process and discovering truth and reality as exemplified by the study of individual events. The study of History would be meaningful only when we understand the ...

St. Augustine as a Historian of Philosophy - CORE
history of philosophy. A man's philosophy is too personal a thing, ae thinks, and it is impossible for a man to capture the true spirit of it. Nevertheless, many -"~ varied &aTe 1. been the atterupts ~de b~ mea, seeking to present a true pic­ ture of the …

DPHIL History - University of Oxford
Master of Letters and Doctor of Philosophy ... Oxford History theses, as well as an introduction to the facilities available in the Faculty and elsewhere in Oxford. In this introductory section, we continue with some of the basics – orientation, advice for part-time

Zhang, Xiaolin, Zhou, Aiguang and Ryall, Emily S ORCID: 0000 …
1. Origin and History of Philosophy of Sports in China The study of the philosophy of sports in China commenced in the early 1980s. Scholars have generally divided the development of Chinese sport philosophy into three stages but have subtle differences. Wang, Wang, and Zhang (2000) hold that a series of academic conferences during 1980–

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definition of theory and philosophy of history can help us overcome this problem. Ethan Kleinberg’s Reflections on Theory of History Polyphonic were a provocative, highly stimulating read, as I had expected. 1. Building upon the Theses on Theory and History, which he coauthored with Joan W. Scott and Gary Wilder, 2. Kleinberg makes

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Maurice Mandelbaum, The History of Ideas, Intellectual History, and the History of Philosophy, History and Theory, Vol. 5, Beiheft 5: The Historiography of the History of Philosophy (1965), pp. 33-66

Durham E-Theses Michael Oakeshott and the Traditionalists: Philosophy …
I argue that his political philosophy and general philosophy must be treated separately because of their different implications for politics, and because of the different purposes and speed of their subsequent transformation. I contend further that Oakeshott’s political philosophy is more strictly philosophical in claiming that the political

The Militant Listener: Reading Mongane Wally Serote’s ... - SciELO
Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History In Sikhahlel’ u-OR: A Praise Poem for Oliver Tambo, Mongane Wally Serote presents an unflinching yet delicate meandering through the questions, reflections and provo - cations resistance history offers up through O. R. Tambo’s life. As Ciraj Rassool points

Durham E-Theses Philosophy and science in Berkeley's de motu
enterprises, namely philosophy and physics, each having exclusive membership - as is very much the case now Cexcept for the occasional maverick). In that period there was only philosophy practised by people calling themselves "philosophers"; it is a mere accident of history that some are remembered for what we now call

Walter Benjamin and the Theory of Art History
all, on the philosophy of history are also of tremendous significance for the history of art.' Indeed, as evidenced by many of Benjamin's works, ranging from ... 1979, pp. 333-336; "Theses on the Philosophy of History," trans. Harry Zohn, in Illuminations, New York, Schocken Books, 1978, pp. 253-264; and especially "Eduard Fuchs, Collector and ...

WHY IS THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY WORTH OUR STUDY?
history of philosophy is so obviously worthwhile as not to require any explicit justification. There are analytic philosophers who take aim at the practice of the history of philosophy, but they do so under some cover. The rarity of these challenges does not disguise the fact that the purpose and the value of historical philosophy are far from ...

Theses on the Question of the Interconnection of Philosophy and ...
Moscow State University, wrote these “theses on philosophy.” The theses were the subject of discussion at a n open meeting of their department. The subsequent furore pitched Ilyenkov and Korovikov against the Soviet philosophical establishment, controlled by philosophers who had come to prominence at the height of Stalinism.

PHIL 3330A TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
2 WEEKLY SCHEDULE & PRIMARY READINGS Mon. January 9 th Introduction to Political Philosophy The Classical Period Mon. January 14th Thucydides Pericles’ Funeral Oration p 3 Melian Dialogue p 7 Mon. January 21st Plato Apology p 17 Crito p 29 Phaedo p 35 The Republic p 37 Mon. January 28th Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics p 130 ...

WHY IS THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY WORTH OUR STUDY?
and against the truth of theses in the domains of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, etc. The practice of the history of philosophy is devoted instead to discovering ... So history of philosophy is necessary in a pragmatic sense. If there are philosophers who refuse to see the need for the labor Popkin describes, they are arrogantly incorrect ...

2015 Mark Sacks Lecture Williams, History, and the Impurity of Philosophy
essay is that ‘philosophy’s engagement with history go a long way beyond its concern with its own history, though that is certainly part of it’.(‘Humanistic’: 181). This thought brings in history not just in the sense of a succession of ideas or theories within the discourse of philosophy itself, but places philosophy and

The Language of the Self: A Critical Assessment of Filipino Philosophy …
Profile of MA Philosophy Theses in Terms of Philosophical Tradition in UP Diliman (1985-2009) 3As of the moment, UP has yet to produce doctoral dissertations since the Ph.D. program in the Philosophy Department just commenced very recently. 4The most recent philosophy thesis available in the UP Archives is dated 2009. Theses

Durham E-Theses The Theorist: Thomas Burnet and his sacred history …
philosophy of science through their fascinating and adeptly-delivered lectures in a first-year undergraduate module which I very nearly didnt take and was soon glad that Id changed my mind at the eleventh hour.

Wittgenstein’s comparison between philosophy, aesthetics and …
differs from metaphysical philosophy, as well as clarifying the sense in which there are no theses in philosophy as he 1conceives of it. Wittgenstein writes: The strange resemblance between a philosophical investigation (perhaps especially in mathematics) and one in aesthetics, e.g. what is bad about this garment, how it should be, etc.

BLASTING THE PAST: A REREADING OF WALTER BENJAMIN’S THESES …
The text offers a reappraisal of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History (Über den Begriff der Geschichte; ‘On the Concept of History’) from the perspective of global politics ...

Cai, Qinghua The Differentiation between Words and Meaning …
“basic theses of the philosophy of language,” let alone the significance which the differentiation of words and meaning may have for such theses. The linguistic turn in Western philosophy since the mid-20th century is well noted. Nevertheless, the term “philosophy of language” is still rather complicated and con-fused.

Durham E-Theses Philosophy of time in contemporary ction
4 The 'Bergson, Henri-Louis' entry in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy declares: Time, for Bergson, is of two fundamentally different kinds, or better, especially for his later philosophy, appears in two fundamentally different guises. For science, time is essentially particulate.

WHY IS THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY WORTH OUR STUDY?
history of philosophy is so obviously worthwhile as not to require any explicit justification. There are analytic philosophers who take aim at the practice of the history of philosophy, but they do so under some cover. The rarity of these challenges does not disguise the fact that the purpose and the value of historical philosophy are far from ...

A Researcher’s Dilemma: Philosophy in Crafting Dissertations and Theses
tion of dissertations and theses revealed great disparities in the use of philosophical underpin-nings within social research studies (Nicholls 2005). In fact, some doctoral theses make no ref-erence at all to philosophy, yet philosophy must be the driving force that guides theses (Sefotho 2013: 25). This is because philosophy is like a

Red Helmsman: Cybernetics, Economics, and Philosophy in the …
State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact scholarworks@gsu.edu. ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Department of History. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu ...

Durham E-Theses Aspects of archaeology, history ... - Durham …
Durham E-Theses Aspects of archaeology, history, landscape, material culture and structures of bishops' houses in the English dioceses of Carlisle and Durham, and the ... A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Departments of History and Archaeology Durham University 2019 . ABSTRACT

Durham E-Theses Sympathy and Re ection in Hume's Philosophy: …
philosophy, we need to shed light on the connection between Hume’s experimental analysis of human nature in epistemology, and his naturalistic account in ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy. However, too often, writers on the latter are not always fully informed on his general philosophy – and vice versa.

Possible Research Topics for Masters Theses for 2017-2018
Possible Research Topics for Masters Theses for 2017-2018 Alphabetical list per center . Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy (CESPF) Prof. dr. L. Anckaert . Specialization: Jewish Philosophy: the importance of the dialogical relation concerning the problem of evil of the Shoah - …

Theories of human rights in relation to understandings of …
academic fields such as anthropology, law, sociology, normative or political philosophy. Most of the theories used in this thesis will be in the fields of normative and political philosophy where there are the most direct constructions of human rights frameworks. They may be supportive, but also critical of aspects of human rights.

History Teaching and Philosophy of History
It would probably be fair to say that most history teachers in Britain still re-gard philosophy of history (if they give it a thought) as an alien, even preten-tious, activity, irrelevant to their practical concerns. This is partly explained by the attitude shown toward philosophy of history by many professional histo-

The Later Aesthetics of Walter Benjamin - JSTOR
1. Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," in Illuminations (New York, 1973), p. 254. I have pursued the problem of the Messianic strain in the thought of the early Benjamin at length in my article, "An Aesthetic of Redemption: Benjamin's Path to Trauer-spiel," Telos 43 (Spring, 1980), 61-90. 81

Durham E-Theses The Social Philosophy of Gillian Rose: …
vi Abbreviations Works by Gillian Rose TMS The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno (1978) HCS Hegel Contra Sociology (1981) DN Dialectic of Nihilism: Post-Structuralism and Law (1984) BM The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society (1992) JAM Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays (1993) LW Love’s Work: A …

Climate and History in the Anthropocene: Realist Narrative and …
‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ (1942), in Thesis XVII, in which Benjamin describes the historical materialist’s thought process as a matter

Durham E-Theses The Science and Logic of William Paley's Moral Philosophy
The Science and Logic of William Paley's Moral Philosophy Can Wang ASTRAT William Paley's The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy is one of the most influential modern works of theological utilitarianism. His views on moral philosophy, evidentialism and natural theology were required reading in English universities up until the 1850s.

A Brief Guide to Writing the Philosophy Paper - Harvard University
turn. Good philosophy proceeds with modest, careful and clear steps. Structuring a Philosophy Paper Philosophy assignments generally ask you to consider some thesis or argument, often a thesis or argument that has been presented by another philosopher (a thesis is argument, you may be asked to do one or more of the

Bell's Curve: Why the Arc of American History Does Not Bend …
Philosophy Theses Department of Philosophy 5-9-2015 Bell's Curve: Why the Arc of American History Does Not Bend Toward Racial Equality Jon Thomas ... history has been so racist that we find examples of expressions of the doctrine of white supremacy and

Theses on Cinema as Philosophy - JSTOR
Livingston Theses on Cinema as Philosophy 13 cinema's representational capacities will be compatible, then, with the observation that audio-visual recordings of a philosopher's lec-tures are an exclusively cinematic resource. It follows that the cinema can make an exclusive contribution to philosophy by providing vivid

Durham E-Theses Causation, Realism, Determinism ... - Durham …
must) arise from presentist history and offer a defence of it. I will do this by examining arguments concerning Whig history, triumphalism, and chronologically wide-ranging historical surveys, as well as looking a case study in the history of alchemy and early modern chemistry. I will also examine the historiography of scientific biography

Theses on Cinema as Philosophy - JSTOR
Livingston Theses on Cinema as Philosophy 13 cinema's representational capacities will be compatible, then, with the observation that audio-visual recordings of a philosopher's lec-tures are an exclusively cinematic resource. It follows that the cinema can make an exclusive contribution to philosophy by providing vivid

SOURCE Indian Doctoral Theses in the Field of History of …
Also, a number of theses on topics related to the history of mathematics have been written for the award of the M.Phil. (Master of Philosophy) degree in Mathematics at some universities in India. Beyond this, doctoral-level research work in the field of the history of mathemat- ics has been carried out at many Indian universities, and several ...

RESEARCH, NARRATIVE, AND REPRESENTATION - Wiley Online …
In his “Six Theses on Narrativist Philosophy,” published in 1994, Frank Ankersmit could write, “with a few exceptions (W. H. Walsh, H. V. White, L. O. Mink), current philosophy of history is interested exclusively in historical 1. I would like to express my gratitude to Frank Ankersmit, Chiel van den Akker, Stephen Turner,

Presentation on Feminism in History of Philosophy by Genevieve …
^The idea of history of philosophy as engaging in conversation with the mighty dead takes on special difficulties and perhaps special poignancy – from a female speaking position. ... appeal to extra-philosophical considerations to explain the existence of particular claims and theses. One might explain them using some other theory – Marxism ...

Introduction to Philosophy - UC Davis
fending the theses. Other skeptics emphasize the prevalence of disagreement over the truth of philo-sophical theses and claim that no argument is capable of settling such disagree-ment. The History of Western Philosophy The history of western philosophy can be broken down roughly into several phases. – Hellenic (6th-4th cent. BC)

Boyd, David John (2019) nomadology of the otaku database of …
theorist McKenzie Wark calls ‘otaku philosophy’ to examine how both high and low theories articulate anxieties and fascinations with the global theoretical discourses on ‘the ends of History’ and the imminent demise of industrial modernity. The first portion of the thesis is