Images of history [electronic resource] : Kant, Benjamin, freedom, and the human subject / Richard Eldridge.

Images of history [electronic resource] : Kant, Benjamin, freedom, and the human subject / Richard Eldridge.

9780190605346 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (xvi, 235 pages)

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190605322 doi

BD450 .E3935 2016b

128.0922

Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, this book argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin recognize this fact.

Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, this book argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin recognize this fact.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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