The Philosophy of History

This volume contains a selection of the talks given at the Philosophy of History seminar in the IHR, London, in the period 2000-6. It puts students, historians, teachers of History and anyone else interested in the subject in touch with what is being researched and discussed today at the cutting edge of Philosophy of History studies.

Autorentext
LESLIE ARMOUR Research Professor of Philosophy, Dominican University College, Ottowa, Canada ROBERT M. BURNS Lecturer in the Department of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK JAMES CONNELLY Professor of Political Thought, Southampton Solent University, UK OLIVER DADDOW Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Loughborough University, UK ECCY DE JONGE Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Middlesex, UK MARY FULBROOK Professor of German History, University College London, UK BÉATRICE HAN-PILE Reader in Philosophy, University of Essex, UK KEITH JENKINS Professor of Historical Theory, University of Chichester, UK RAY MONK Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, UK ALUN MUNSLOW UK Editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice ELLEN O'GORMAN Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol, UK MICHAEL J. O'NEILL Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, USA WILLIAM SCOTT Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK BEVERLY SOUTHGATE Reader Emeritus in History of Ideas, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Inhalt
Preface Introduction The Place of History in Spinoza's Metaphysics; E.de Jonge Did the French Revolutionaries Have a Philosophy of History?; W.Scott Hegel's History of Philosophy: Some Critical Reflections; R.M.Burns The Concept of Civilization and the Problem of a Speculative Philosophy of History; L.Armour On the Role of Time in Collingwood's Thought; M.J.O'Neill Intertextuality, Time and Historical Understanding; E.O'Gorman Early Foucault and Transcendental History; B.Han-Pile Postmodernism, the End of History and Frank Ankersmit; K.Jenkins Postmodernism and the Politics of Historiography; O.Daddow Detachment Dispatch'd: History as Poetics; B.Southgate Postmodern Scepticism, Truth and History; J.Connelly Why All Historical Accounts are Inevitably Theoretical, but Why Some Accounts are Preferable to Others; M.Fulbrook The Manifold Paradoxes of Orientalism; A.L.Macfie Biography and History: Criticism, Theory and Practice; A.Muslow Getting Inside Heisenberg's Head; R.Monk Index