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Zusatztext Nikulin offers us a significant and mature reflection on the philosophy of history that asks for our attentive consideration. He writes with impressive intelligence, wide ranging reference and in a thoughtful manner that engages the reader. Avoiding the extreme of a univocal universal history, he offers us a pluralistic view of multiple histories, without at the same time falling into historicist relativism. Warmly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Dmitri Nikulin is Chair of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York, USA. His interests range from ancient and early modern philosophy to the philosophy of dialogue and of literature. He is the author of a number of books including Matter, Imagination and Geometry (2002), On Dialogue (2006), Dialectic and Dialogue (2010), and Comedy, Seriously (2014). He is also the editor of and contributor to Th e Other Plato (2012) and Memory: A Philosophical History ( 2015).A lively philosophical study of history that argues against the modern conception of history as universal and teleological. The book provides a critical discussion of the constituents of history that are at work in the constitution and transmission of every historical account. Zusammenfassung The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the modern understanding of history that presents it as universal and teleological, progressively moving forward to an end. Although few contemporary philosophers and historians maintain the view that there is strict universality and teleology in history, the remnants of these positions still affect our understanding of history. But if history is not universal and singular, evolving toward an objective universal end, it should be possible to admit of multiple histories, some of which we appropriate as our own. An another important aspect of this book is that if provides an account of history that is itself both historical and rooted in attempts to narrate and explain history from its inception in antiquity. The book seeks to establish features or constituents of history that might be found in any historical account and might themselves be considered historical invariants in history. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgements and Dedication1. The structures of history2. Early history3. The epic of history4. The Homer galaxy5. The logos of history6. Memory and history7. The genealogy of historyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex...
