UID:
edocfu_9959648544202883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 164 pages).
ISBN:
9780776617602
,
0776617605
,
9780776618289
,
0776618288
Series Statement:
Philosophica,
Content:
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to understanding history today. Ral Fillion offers a critical exposition of the theses of these three authors on the dynamics and the ends of history, in order to provide an answer to the question: "Where are we headed?" Grounding his answer in the twin observations that the world is becoming increasingly multicultural and increasingly unified, Fillion reasserts the.
Note:
Introduction : Where Are We Headed? -- Part 1. One World. Kant and the Cosmopolitan Point of View -- Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal -- Part 2. The Dynamics of Recognition. Prologue : Hospitality, Conditional and Unconditional -- Mutual Recognition and the Challenge of Unfamiliar Familiarities -- Hegel, The Particularity of Conflicts, and the Spaces of "Reason-ability" -- Part 3. The Basic Struggle. Marx, Productive Forces, and History -- The Biopolitical Production of the Common -- Conclusion : The Dynamic Telos of History, a Shared Democratic World.
Language:
English
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