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Overview
Professor King's concept of the philosophy of history leads him to offer this demonstration of the incoherence, even absurdity, of the notion that the past can have nothing to teach us - whether posed by those who argue that history is "unique" or that it is merely "contextual".
Synopsis
Professor King's concept of the philosophy of history leads him to offer this demonstration of the incoherence, even absurdity, of the notion that the past can have nothing to teach us - whether posed by those who argue that history is "unique" or that it is merely "contextual".
Booknews
A dozen essays, many recycled from earlier publication, set out King's (political philosophy, U. of Lancaster) insistence that the past has much to teach scholars of what they choose to call the present. His topics include a history of the history of ideas in the 20th century, texts and contexts of Hobbes, historical contextualism, rationalism and tradition in Alasdair MacIntyre, history through hypothesis, and ideology as politics. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)