Effective History: On Critical Practice Under Historical Conditions

by Sinead Murphy

Sin?ad Murphy's Effective History presents its reader with a thorough explanation and evaluation of H.-G. Gadamer's concept of "effective history," not only as it pertains to the broader range of hermeneutic and postmodern thinkers working in the wake of Kantian philosophy, but first and foremost as a careful and measured consideration of the practice of effective history as a critical method for philosophy in our current times. In this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810127148
• ISBN13: 9780810127142
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"