Nothing but history : reconstruction and extremity after metaphysics / David D. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, David D., 1943-

Series:

Critical studies in the humanities.

Critical studies in the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Place of Publication:

Aurora, Colo. : Davies Group, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the role of history in our postmetaphysical age? Surveying two centuries of philosophical writing, David Roberts offers a thoughtful guide to the philosophy of history before the recent challenges associated with deconstructive postmodernism. He then argues for a moderate intellectual tradition in which historical knowledge, although freed from transcendent values, continues to play a crucial role in the conduct of human affairs. Roberts's careful account of historicism explores the ideas of its major nineteenth-century representatives and foils, including Hegel, Dilthey, and Nietzsche. His thorough consideration of such twentieth-century thinkers as Gadamer, Croce, Foucault, and Heidegger contributes vitally to the ongoing discussions about the use and abuse of history. Certain to engage historians and philosophers, this book will interest scholars across the humanities who are concerned with the present and future utility of historical thinking.

Contents:

Postmetaphysical history

Tentative steps into history : from Vico to Dilthey

The reduction to history

Nietzsche : the innocence of becoming

Croce : history as thought and action

Heidegger : historicism, disengagement, holiness

Gadamerian hermeneutics : belonging to a growing tradition

Deconstruction : the uses and limits of perversity

Pragmatism, historicism, aestheticism

Past, process, and contest in contemporary historiography

Responding to the world as historical.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-935790-64-1

OCLC:

182530736