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Images of History - Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject (Hardcover)
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Images of History - Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject (Hardcover)
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Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge
argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of
what is historically possible, while historians require rough
philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable
endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin recognize this
fact. Each sees a special place for religious consciousness and
critical practice in the articulation and revision of ideals that
are to have cultural effect, but they differ sharply in the forms
of religious-philosophical understanding, cultural criticism, and
political practice that they favor. Kant defends a liberal,
reformist, Protestant stance, emphasizing the importance of
liberty, individual rights, and democratic institutions. His
fullest picture of movement toward a moral culture appears in
Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason, where he describes
conjecturally the emergence of an ethical commonwealth. Benjamin
defends a politics of improvisatory alertness and
consciousness-raising that is suspicious of progress and liberal
reform. He practices a form of modernist, materialist criticism
that is strongly rooted in his encounters with Kant, Hoelderlin,
and Goethe. His fullest, finished picture of this critical practice
appears in One-Way Street, where he traces the continuing force of
unsatisfied desires. By drawing on both Kant and Benjamin, Eldridge
hopes to avoid both moralism (standing on sharply specified
normative commitments at all costs) and waywardness (rejecting all
settled commitments). And in doing so, he seeks to make better
sense of the commitment-forming, commitment-revising, anxious,
reflective and sometimes grownup acculturated human subjects we
are.
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