Textbook
Philosophies of History: From Enlightenment to Post-ModernityISBN: 978-0-631-21237-9
Paperback
380 pages
September 2000, ©2000, Wiley-Blackwell
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This important book charts the development of philosophical
thinking about history over the past 250 years, combining extracts
from key texts with new explanatory and critical discussion. The
book is designed to make the work of thinkers such as Hume, Herder,
Hegel, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault accessible to
students with no prior knowledge of Western philosophy.
An introductory section is followed by nine further chapters exploring contrasting schools of thought. The volume reveals the origins of contemporary trends in the discipline and relates wider philosophical reflections to the study of history itself. It also points to connections between philosophy of history and literary and cultural theory which have developed in recent decades.