Images of History

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Images of History is written by Richard Eldridge and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190847360 (ISBN 10) and 9780190847364 (ISBN 13).

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. A persistent constitutive tension between Kantian and Benjaminan ideals is woven through human life. By examining the two philosophers through this volume, Richard Eldridge attempts to make better sense of the commitment forming, commitment revising, anxious, reflective and acculturated human subjects we are.