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Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice
Terry Pinkard
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Description for Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice
Hardback. Hegel's philosophy of history which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European civilization is widely regarded as a failure today. Terry Pinkard's spirited defense of the Hegelian view, based on a subtle understanding of human subjectivity, will play a central role in contemporary reevaluations of Hegel's work. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 245 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
Hegel's philosophy of history--which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European civilization--is widely regarded as a failure today. In Does History Make Sense? Terry Pinkard argues that Hegel's understanding of historical progress is not the kind of teleological or progressivist account that its detractors claim, but is based on a subtle understanding of human subjectivity. Pinkard shows that for Hegel a break occurred between modernity and all that came before, when human beings found a new way to make sense of themselves as rational, self-aware creatures. In Hegel's view of history, different ... Read more
Hegel's philosophy of history--which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European civilization--is widely regarded as a failure today. In Does History Make Sense? Terry Pinkard argues that Hegel's understanding of historical progress is not the kind of teleological or progressivist account that its detractors claim, but is based on a subtle understanding of human subjectivity. Pinkard shows that for Hegel a break occurred between modernity and all that came before, when human beings found a new way to make sense of themselves as rational, self-aware creatures. In Hegel's view of history, different ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
563g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674971776
SKU
V9780674971776
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About Terry Pinkard
Terry Pinkard is University Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.
Reviews for Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice
This book tackles what is far and away the most controversial and uniformly rejected aspect of Hegel's philosophy, his claim about the rationality, even the necessity, of the course of human history. Terry Pinkard has written both an extremely accessible and lucid book, as well as one that offers the sophisticated philosophical reader a number of fascinating and important animadversions ... Read more