Thinking Past a Problem
Essays on the History of Ideas
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2013
352 pages
978-1-135-29890-6 (ISBN)
Description
Professor King's concept of the philosophy of history leads him to offer this demonstration of the incoherence, even absurdity, of the notion that the past can have nothing to teach us - whether posed by those who argue that history is "unique" or that it is merely "contextual".
Reviews / Votes
'King argues his thesis, both in general and in relation to individual thinkers, with considerable subtlety and insight, and no serious historian of ideas can afford to ignore its implications.' - Times Literary Supplement'King provides a most substantive and enlightening introduction, guiding the reader through the various essays and reconstructing what is a most original version of the complex link between past and present ... the relevance of the collection in the present climate can hardly be exaggerated.' - History of Political Thought
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
4,81 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-29890-6 (9781135298906)
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Persons
Preston King
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Thinking Past a Problem; Chapter 3 The Twentieth Century; Chapter 4 Michael Oakeshott and Historical Particularism; Chapter 5 Skinner; Chapter 6 Hobbes; Chapter 7 Historical Contextualism; Chapter 8 Historical Contextualism Revisited; Chapter 9 Alasdair Maclntyre; Chapter 10 History via Hypothesis; Chapter 11 An Ideological Fallacy; Chapter 12 Ideology as Politics;
