Human subjects are both formed by historical inheritances and capable of active criticism. Insisting on this fact, Kant and Benjamin each develop powerful, systematic, but sharply opposed accounts of human powers and interests in freedom.
Human subjects are both formed by historical inheritances and capable of active criticism. Insisting on this fact, Kant and Benjamin each develop powerful, systematic, but sharply opposed accounts of human powers and interests in freedom.
Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He has held visiting appointments at Essex, Stanford, Bremen, Erfurt, Freiburg, Brooklyn, and Sydney. He is the author of 5 books and over 100 articles in aesthetics, philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, and Romanticism and Idealism. He has edited 4 volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, and he is the Series Editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature.
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* Acknowledgments * Preface * 1. Introduction: Historical Understanding and Human Action * 2. Kant's Conjecturalism * 3. Cultivating the Ethical Commonwealth: Kant's Religion and Reason in History * 4. Benjamin's Modernism * 5. Modernist-Materialist Criticism and Human Possibility: Benjamin's One-Way Street and Traces of Free Life * 6. Self-Unity and History * Bibliography
* Acknowledgments * Preface * 1. Introduction: Historical Understanding and Human Action * 2. Kant's Conjecturalism * 3. Cultivating the Ethical Commonwealth: Kant's Religion and Reason in History * 4. Benjamin's Modernism * 5. Modernist-Materialist Criticism and Human Possibility: Benjamin's One-Way Street and Traces of Free Life * 6. Self-Unity and History * Bibliography
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