Transcendental History

Informationen zum Autor SØREN GOSVIG OLESEN is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has translated Foucault, Derrida, Agamben and Heidegger into Danish, and has written several books in Danish on transcendental philosophy and deconstruction. DAVID D. POSSEN, a postdoctoral researcher at Yale and the University of Copenhagen, holds a Joint Ph.D. in Philosophy and Social Thought from the University of Chicago. He has translated numerous academic articles from Danish and German into English. This is his first book-length translation. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface PART I: THREE LESSONS IN THINKING ABOUT HISTORY Husserl and the History of Reason Heidegger and the History of Being Merleau-Ponty and History Deconstructed PART II: THE HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT The Call of the Subject The Heyday of the Subject The Shipwreck of the Subject The History of the Subject PART III: TRANSCENDENTAL HISTORY A Preliminary Concept of History A Philosophical Concept of History Transcendental Logic as a Project Necessary Truth Tautology The Incarnation of the Truth Technology and History Summary Bibliography Index

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Preface PART I: THREE LESSONS IN THINKING ABOUT HISTORY Husserl and the History of Reason Heidegger and the History of Being Merleau-Ponty and History Deconstructed PART II: THE HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT The Call of the Subject The Heyday of the Subject The Shipwreck of the Subject The History of the Subject PART III: TRANSCENDENTAL HISTORY A Preliminary Concept of History A Philosophical Concept of History Transcendental Logic as a Project Necessary Truth Tautology The Incarnation of the Truth Technology and History Summary Bibliography Index

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• Authors: S. Ren Gosvig Olesen, Soren Gosvig Olesen, Søren Gosvig Olesen, Sren Gosvig Olesen, GOSVIG OLESEN SOREN, Kenneth A Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo, S. Gosvig Olesen, Soren G. Olesen
• Assisted by: Kenneth A Loparo (Translation), Kenneth A. Loparo (Translation), David D Possen (Translation), David D. Possen (Translation), David Dov Possen (Translation)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2012
• EAN: 9781137277770
• ISBN: 978-1-137-27777-0
• No. of pages: 213
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, History of Ideas, Phenomenology, Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Intellectual History, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Intellectual life—History, Intellectual Studies, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Structuralism & Post-structuralism, poststructuralism