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Christopher Tomlins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the strait gate the past History and legal scholarship
    Law Culture and the Humanities, 2009
    Co-Authors: Christopher Tomlins
    Abstract:

    For many years, History has furnished a conceptual and methodological standpoint, historicism, which scholars have employed to enter into engagements with law. But how do the exponents of historicism — whether conventional or critical — define that standpoint, and what is the nature of the object (the past) that their definitions isolate for contemplation? This essay seeks illumination through counterpoint — an exposition of Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of History and its key components: recollection, actualization and constellation. I propose that History can and should be a dangerous form of knowledge, and that Benjamin worked hard to show us how. To make it so, however, requires that one abandon what most forms of contemporary historical inquiry take for granted, History-as-science. To show why, I develop an examination and critique of historicist sense-making in the domain of law, both conventional and critical. I also engage with two recent scholarly attempts to move beyond historicism: how they succ...

  • the strait gate the past History and legal scholarship
    Social Science Research Network, 2009
    Co-Authors: Christopher Tomlins
    Abstract:

    For many years, History has furnished a conceptual and methodological standpoint, historicism, which scholars have employed to enter into engagements with law. But how do the exponents of historicism – whether conventional or critical – define that standpoint, and what is the nature of the object (the past) that their definitions isolate for contemplation? This essay seeks illumination through counterpoint – an exposition of Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of History and its key components: recollection, actualization and constellation. I propose that History can and should be a dangerous form of knowledge, and that Benjamin worked hard to show us how. To make it so, however, requires that one abandon what most forms of contemporary historical inquiry take for granted, History-as-science. To show why, I develop an examination and critique of historicist sense-making in the domain of law, both conventional and critical. I also engage with two recent scholarly attempts to move beyond historicism: how they succeed, where they fail, and what we learn from them.

Allen W. Wood - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • idea for a universal History with a cosmopolitan aim
    2009
    Co-Authors: Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood
    Abstract:

    TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION This essay appears to have been occasioned by a passing remark made by Kant's colleague and follower Johann Schultz in a 1784 article in the Gotha Learned Papers . In order to make good on Schultz's remark, Kant wrote this article, which appeared in the Berlinische Monatsschrift late in the same year. This is the first, and despite its brevity the most fully worked out, statement of his Philosophy of History. The “idea” referred to in the title is a theoretical idea, that is, an a priori conception of a theoretical program to maximize the comprehensibility of human History. It anticipates much of the theory of the use of natural teleology in the theoretical understanding of nature that Kant was to develop over five years later in the Critique of the Power of Judgment . But this theoretical idea also stands in a close and complex relationship to Kant's moral and political Philosophy, and to his conception of practical faith in divine providence. Especially prominent in it is the first statement of Kant's famous conception of a federation of states united to secure perpetual peace between nations. The Idea for a Universal History also contained several propositions that were soon to be disputed by J. G. Herder in his Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Humanity , leading to Kant's reply in his reviews of that work (1785) and in the Conjectural Beginning of Human History (1786). Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltburgerlicher Absicht was first published in the Berlinische Monatsschrift IV (November 11, 1784).

  • anthropology History and education idea for a universal History with a cosmopolitan aim 1784
    2007
    Co-Authors: Allen W. Wood
    Abstract:

    TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION This essay appears to have been occasioned by a passing remark made by Kant's colleague and follower Johann Schultz in a 1784 article in the Gotha Learned Papers (see Note 1 below). In order to make good on Schultz's remark, Kant wrote this article, which appeared in the Berli- nische Monatsschrift late in the same year. This is the first, and despite its brevity the most fully worked out, statement of his Philosophy of History. The “idea” referred to in the title is a theoretical idea, that is, an a priori conception of a theoretical program to maximize the comprehensibility of human History. It anticipates much of the theory of the use of natural teleology in the theoretical understanding of nature that Kant was to develop over five years later in the Critique of the Power of Judgment . But this theoretical idea also stands in a close and complex relationship to Kant's moral and political Philosophy, and to his conception of practical faith in divine providence. Especially prominent in it is the first statement of Kant's famous conception of a federation of states united to secure perpetual peace between nations. The Idea for a Universal History also contained several propositions that were soon to be disputed by J. G. Herder in his Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Humanity , leading to Kant's reply in his reviews of that work (1785) and in the Conjectural Beginning of Human History (1786).

  • anthropology History and education idea for a universal History with a cosmopolitan aim 1784
    2007
    Co-Authors: Allen W. Wood
    Abstract:

    TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION This essay appears to have been occasioned by a passing remark made by Kant's colleague and follower Johann Schultz in a 1784 article in the Gotha Learned Papers (see Note 1 below). In order to make good on Schultz's remark, Kant wrote this article, which appeared in the Berli- nische Monatsschrift late in the same year. This is the first, and despite its brevity the most fully worked out, statement of his Philosophy of History. The “idea” referred to in the title is a theoretical idea, that is, an a priori conception of a theoretical program to maximize the comprehensibility of human History. It anticipates much of the theory of the use of natural teleology in the theoretical understanding of nature that Kant was to develop over five years later in the Critique of the Power of Judgment . But this theoretical idea also stands in a close and complex relationship to Kant's moral and political Philosophy, and to his conception of practical faith in divine providence. Especially prominent in it is the first statement of Kant's famous conception of a federation of states united to secure perpetual peace between nations. The Idea for a Universal History also contained several propositions that were soon to be disputed by J. G. Herder in his Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Humanity , leading to Kant's reply in his reviews of that work (1785) and in the Conjectural Beginning of Human History (1786).

Lucia Pradella - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • hegel imperialism and universal History
    Science & Society, 2014
    Co-Authors: Lucia Pradella
    Abstract:

    Abstract A growing body of scholarship has addressed Hegel's analysis of the social question and of European expansionism. An equally significant literature has focused on his Philosophy of History, discussing its Eurocentrism or even his racist distortions. Study of the link between Hegel's political economy and his Philosophy of History reveals the centrality of labor and of historical evolution in his work. This permitted Hegel to overcome, in part, the naturalizing approach of the classical economists and to identify some contradictions of the system. As he also ended up by naturalizing it, however, Hegel promoted European expansionism on the basis of a Eurocentric vision that clashes with the universalist perspective of the Philosophy of Right.

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Peden Knox - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The politics of disenchantment: Marcel Gauchet and the French struggle with secularization
    'Informa UK Limited', 2020
    Co-Authors: Peden Knox
    Abstract:

    This article looks at Marcel Gauchet’s major metahistorical statement, The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion (1985), and uses it to advance a series of claims about the place of secularization in debates within and about French politics, especially in relation to modern French History. The argument is put forward that Gauchet’s work is best understood as offering an alternative Philosophy of History to Marxism that could serve to support a broadly republican realignment of French politics in the 1980s. Revisionist historiography concerning the French Revolution likewise played a role in this development, and served as a prerequisite of sorts to Gauchet’s broader historical project. The article also considers Gauchet’s work in light of postmodern skepticism of the utility of historical metanarratives.Research for this article was supported by the Australian Research Council [DE140101770]