The system of philosophies of history
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The system of philosophies of history
（Political philosophy, 2）
University of Chicago Press, 1992
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Le système des philosophies de l'histoire
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Translation of: Le système des philosophies de l'histoire
"Originally published in Paris as Philosophie politique, 2 : Le système des philosophies de l'histoire. Presses universitaires de France, 1984."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-196) and index
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Because contemporary political philosophy owes a significant debt to the great nineteenth-century German philosophies of history, a sound knowledge of German Idealist philosophy is crucial to an understanding of our own time. In Political Philosophy 2, Luc Ferry provides not only a thorough introduction to German Idealism and its critics, but also an insightful look at contemporary political philosophy. Ferry begins this second volume of his ambitious three-volume Political Philosophy by considering both the structure and the potential political effects of the various philosophies of history born of German Idealism. He focuses on the key question of whether, and to what extent, the principle of reason may be said to govern the totality of the historically real. This leads to an examination of Hegel's criticism of the moral view of the world and to an assessment of the phenomenological criticism of Hegel put forth by Heidegger and Arendt.
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