Heretical essays in the philosophy of history
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Author
Contributions
- Dodd, James, 1968- - Contributor
Publication
1996 - Open Court, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
47,250 words, Guess
Page Count
189 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1002845M
- ISBN-10081269337X
- OCLC Control Number35270049
- OCLC Control Numberhereticalessaysi0000pato
- Library of Congress Control Number96042179
and 2 more
- Goodreads1888592
- LibraryThing976241
Classifications
- DDC901
- LCCD16.8 .P33813 1996
Description
History begins inseparably with the birth of the polis and of philosophy. Both represent a unity in strife. History is life that no longer takes itself for granted. To speak, then, of the meaning of history is not to tell a story with a projected happy or unhappy ending, as Western civilization has hoped, at least since the French Revolution. History's meaning is the meaning of the struggle in which being both reveals and conceals itself. Technological society represents both the triumph of historicity and its implosion, since here humans turn from reaching for the sacrum imperium - life lived in the perspective of truth and justice - to the mundane satisfaction of mundane needs, to life lived for the sake of catering to life.
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