Images of History
Subtitle: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780190605322
Subjects: Kant, immanuel, 1724-1804; Benjamin, walter, 1892-1940; Philosophical anthropology; History, philosophy
Description: Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, this book argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin recognize this fact.