PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This article critically examines Dipesh Chakrabarty's concept of Anthropocene history, a philosophy of history that is designed to respond to the universal challenge of the Anthropocene. It uses the work of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty to mitigate the pitfalls of Chakrabarty's concept and to propose an alternative relation between nature and history. I argue that the problem of Chakrabarty's Anthropocene history resides no…

Reference · Wikidata

scholarly article in Journal of Northwest University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), no. 6, 2019

Book · DOAB

Those who keep a finger on the pulse of British democracy often announce that the patient is in a critical state. In the 1970s, the diagnosis most often came from the right, with dire warnings of the debilitating effects of social democracy. Since the 1979 election, it is those on the left who are pessimistic, pointing to an insidious authoritarianism that threatens democratic values. Therefore, a book which maintai…

Full text · Open Library

Surveys the intellectual background of man from medieval times through the Renaissance to modern times.

Image · DPLA

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