A Peculiar Fate : : Metaphysics and World-History in Kant / / Peter Fenves.

Peter Fenves here investigates Kant's ongoing effort to bring metaphysical and strictly historical concepts of the world together in his presentation of world-history. Fenves argues that, far from being a mere illustration of his metaphysical principles, Kant's attempt to present history i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1991
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Translations
  • Introduction: Raising the Question–Fate
  • 1. Sterndeutung: Sky and Ground in the Universal Natural History
  • 2. Fatalities: The Turn of Freedom in the “Idea for a Universal History”
  • 3. Enthusiasm, Anamnesis: Freedom and Renewal in the “Renewed Question”
  • Renewal Once Again
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Index