Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Lydia L. Moland
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Art History ◽  
Complex State ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
End Of Art

Hegel has long been considered both the father of art history and the prophet of art’s end. This chapter explains this hybrid reputation and argues that a misunderstanding of both what Hegel means by the “end of art” and the “end of history” prevents us from understanding art’s role in his philosophical idealism. It argues that art has three kinds of endings in Hegel’s system: conceptual ends, prosaic ends, and a historical end. It suggests that while Part II of Hegel’s aesthetics enhances our understanding of his social-political philosophy, the less-discussed Part III enables us to understand his theory of selfhood, perception, feeling, and freedom. It describes the intense philosophizing about art among Hegel’s contemporaries and discusses the complex state of the sources available for analyzing Hegel’s thoughts about art.

Las Antinomias de la Democracia Liberal

1998 ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Carlos Kohn W.
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
The State ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
Neutral Model ◽  
Overlapping Consensus ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
The Invisible

I criticize the liberal foundations of democracy on two counts: (1) the impossible defense of a "neutral" model of the state; and (2) the individualist foundation of its moral and political philosophy. I suggest as well that political liberalism reduces the emancipatory chances of the democratic project by pursuing the goal of Hobbes. Leviathan-that is, by seeking to establish a well-ordered society that endorses an overlapping consensus favoring the ruling classes. The guiding dictum of the "demoliberal" theory seems to be-to paraphrase Adam Smith and Hegel-the invisible hand which regulates the market is the cunning reason of democracy, or, the key of its governability. Are we approaching the end of history as longed for by Fukuyama? I will analyze the premises which sustain his thesis.

From Derrida's Deconstruction to Stiegler's Organology: Thinking after Postmodernity

Derrida Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Anne Alombert
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Critique ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The End Of History

The aim of this paper is to question the significance of Derrida's deconstruction of the concepts of subject and history. While ‘postmodernity’ tends to be characterized by philosophical critique as the ‘liquidation of the subject’ or the ‘end of history’, I attempt to show that Derrida's deconstruction of ‘subjectivity’ and ‘historicity’ is not an elimination or destruction of these concepts, but an attempt to transform them in order to free them from their metaphysical-teleological presuppositions. This paper argues that this transformation, which begins in Derrida's and continues in Stiegler's texts, leads to the notions of ‘psycho-social individuation’ and ‘doubly epokhal redoubling’. I maintain that such notions ‘supplement’ the metaphysical concepts of subject and history by forcing a reconsideration of the technical conditions of psychic individuation and the technological conditions of ‘epochality’.

The End of History Museums: What's Plan B??

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary Carson
Keyword(s):  
Historic Sites ◽  
The Public ◽  
End Of History ◽  
House Museums ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Plan B ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
The Way

Abstract Are historic sites and house museums destined to go the way of Oldsmobiles and floppy disks?? Visitation has trended downwards for thirty years. Theories abound, but no one really knows why. To launch a discussion of the problem in the pages of The Public Historian, Cary Carson cautions against the pessimistic view that the past is simply passéé. Instead he offers a ““Plan B”” that takes account of the new way that learners today organize information to make history meaningful.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Kynes
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
The End Of History

The introduction sets this study in the context of the three recent critical approaches it combines: (1) “metacritical” studies of biblical criticism that identify and critically analyze the “historically effected consciousness” that inspired a particular approach to biblical interpretation; (2) “biographies” of texts that examine their origins and effects; and (3) “end- of” books, which, following the lead of Fukuyama’s “The End of History?” (1989), argue, among other things, that old concepts may fade away as perceptions change. The role of genre methodology in perpetuating the Wisdom Literature category and now in challenging it is introduced. Finally, terminological distinctions are made between the Wisdom Literature category and Wisdom as a genre, the Wisdom Schools associated with it, and wisdom as a concept.

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