Transcendental History [electronic resource] /
Olesen, Søren Gosvig.author.
Possen, David Dov.
Transcendental History defends the claim that historicality is the very condition for human knowledge. By explaining this thesis, and by tracing its development from Kant and Hegel to Derrida and Agamben, this book enriches our understanding of the history of philosophy and contributes to epistemology and the philosophy of history.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I Three Lessons in Thinking about History; 1 Husserl and the History of Reason; 2 Heidegger and the History of Being; 3 Merleau-Ponty and History Deconstructed; Part II The History of the Subject; 1 The Call of the Subject; 2 The Heyday of the Subject; 3 The Shipwreck of the Subject; 4 The History of the Subject; Part III Transcendental History; 1 A Preliminary Concept of History; 2 A Philosophical Concept of History; 3 Transcendental Logic as a Project; 4 Necessary Truth; 5 Tautology; 6 The Incarnation of the Truth
7 Technology and HistorySummary; Bibliography; Index nominum; Index rerum
Includes bibliographical references.
Transcendental History defends the claim that historicality is the very condition for human knowledge. By explaining this thesis, and by tracing its development from Kant and Hegel to Derrida and Agamben, this book enriches our understanding of the history of philosophy and contributes to epistemology and the philosophy of history.
Philosophy (General).
Intellectual life-History.
Phenomenology .
Poststructuralism.
Hermeneutics.
History of Philosophy.
Intellectual Studies.
Phenomenology.
Poststructuralism.
Hermeneutics.