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Transcendental History

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Three Lessons in Thinking about History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Husserl and the History of Reason

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 3-17
    3. Heidegger and the History of Being

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 18-31
    4. Merleau-Ponty and History Deconstructed

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 32-48
  3. The History of the Subject

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
    2. The Call of the Subject

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 51-61
    3. The Heyday of the Subject

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 62-75
    4. The Shipwreck of the Subject

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 76-87
    5. The History of the Subject

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 88-99
  4. Transcendental History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
    2. A Preliminary Concept of History

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 103-108
    3. A Philosophical Concept of History

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 109-129
    4. Transcendental Logic as a Project

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 130-138
    5. Necessary Truth

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 139-147
    6. Tautology

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 148-159
    7. The Incarnation of the Truth

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 160-172
    8. Technology and History

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 173-180
    9. Summary

      • Søren Gosvig Olesen
      Pages 181-182
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 183-199

About this book

Transcendental History defends the claim that historicality is the very condition for human knowledge. By explaining this thesis, and by tracing its development from Kant and Hegel to Derrida and Agamben, this book enriches our understanding of the history of philosophy and contributes to epistemology and the philosophy of history.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Søren Gosvig Olesen

About the author

SØREN GOSVIG OLESEN is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has translated Foucault, Derrida, Agamben and Heidegger into Danish, and has written several books in Danish on transcendental philosophy and deconstruction.

DAVID D. POSSEN, a postdoctoral researcher at Yale and the University of Copenhagen, holds a Joint Ph.D. in Philosophy and Social Thought from the University of Chicago. He has translated numerous academic articles from Danish and German into English. This is his first book-length translation.

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