Images of History
Author: Richard Eldridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-12
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0190847360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman 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.