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The shape of the past / Gordon Graham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, Gordon, 1949 July 15- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This pioneering work aims to bring the methods of analytical philosophy to the critical examination of questions about the development of the human race throughout history, covering the work of, among others, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Augustine.
- Contents:
- 1. Giving the Past a Shape
- 2. The Possibility of Philosophical History
- 3. Progress
- 4. Decline
- 5. Collapse
- 6. Recurrence
- 7. Providence
- 8. The Practical Past.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version
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