- Presents a philosophical anthropology (a general conception of human beings as having interests and powers) of human beings as historical beings, capable of active, critical reflection on historical affordances

- Argues that effective, critical, normative moral-political philosophy and historical understanding that includes reference to ideals require each other

- Provides detailed readings of both Kant and Benjamin as developing critical, philosophical anthropologies as the general frameworks for their treatments of specific topics

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Images of History

Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject

Richard Eldridge

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Introduction: Historical Understanding and Human Action

2. Kant's Conjecturalism

3. Cultivating the Ethical Commonwealth:

Kant's Religion and Reason in History

4. Benjamin's Modernism

5. Modernist-Materialist Criticism and Human Possibility:

Benjamin's One-Way Street and Traces of Free Life

6. Self-Unity and History

Bibliography