Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History: Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx (Philosophica) - Softcover

Fillion, Réal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0776606700 ISBN 13: 9780776606705

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press, 2008

Synopsis

Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to understanding history today.

Réal Fillion offers a critical exposition of the theses of these three authors on the dynamics and the ends of history, in order to provide an answer to the question: "Where are we headed?" Grounding his answer in the twin observations that the world is becoming increasingly multicultural and increasingly unified, Fillion reasserts the task of the speculative philosophy of history as it had been understood by German philosophy: the articulation and understanding the historical process as a developmental whole.

Fillion's interpretation engages many recent strands of social and political thought in order to provide a new understanding of current events, and possible futures, grounded in the understanding of the dynamics of the past and the present provided by Kant, Hegel, and Marx. The result is a rich and timely answer to the question of where our world is headed today.

Published in English.

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About the Author

Réal Fillion has taught philosophy for almost 30 years and is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sudbury, part of the Laurentian University Federation. He is the author of Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History: Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx and Foucault and the Indefinite Work of Freedom, both also published by the University of Ottawa Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0776606700
• ISBN 13: 9780776606705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186