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This book provides an up-to-date study of his work and shows that both the nature of the evidence and modern assumptions about historical writing in the Hellenistic period have skewed our treatment and judgement of lost historians.

... 9780521883139 ALGEMEEN Het oog van de geschiedenis – een fotografische bronnenkritiek. Ernst Kossmann de term ' hoogmoed van het historisme ' : alle denken wordt door historici tot geschiedkunde mereduceerd . In plaats hiervan wil Herman ...

But how exactly do they go about reconstructing and representing the past? How should history be written? These and related questions are the subject of Neville Morley's engaging introduction to the theory and philosophy of history.

Explores future visions under a universalizing empire that many thought would never die.

This text asks what it is to be human. Spectres, cyborgs, clones, aliens - representations of the inhuman hybrid seem more various and multiform than ever before.

Howard Caygill systematically explores for the first time the relationship between Levinas' thought and the political.

In this book, Howard Caygill conducts the first ever systematic analysis of 'resistance': as a means of defying political oppression, in its relationship with military violence and its cultural representation.

Caygill reveals how Kafka's reception was governed by a series of accidents - from the order of Max Brod's posthumous publication of the novels and the correction of 'misprints', to many other posthumous editorial strategies.

Incorporating a diversity of approaches from a variety of disciplines, this book provides a major reassessment of the question of nihilism in modernity and interrogates this through the growing interest in angels and demons in contemporary ...