Sublime

For Lukács, the Frankfurt School had abandoned the necessary connection between theory and praxis, where the latter means the realisation in action of the former. If either was to be justifiable, they had to be united – the one reinforcing the other in dialectical relationship. Otherwise, he argued, theory became merely an elitist exercise in inter

He was conservative because he cared for their past, and liberal because he cared for their future. But he was much more than this.

Introduction à la philosophie de l’histoire. Ce livre traite des rapports entre les événements, leur explication et la vérité historique. Vous refusez à la fois l’idée d’un sens de l’Histoire, avec à l’horizon une société idéale à bâtir, aussi bien que l’idée d’une histoire sans signification. Pour vous il n’y a pas une explication déterminante de

Pocock argues that while humanists, such as Machiavelli, believed that the citizen fulfilled himself through civic virtue rather than through ecclesiastical sacraments, they were still unable to develop a theory of history, or what Pocock calls historicism.

what the French fin de siècle social theorist Gabriel Tarde called “the grooves of borrowed thought”71—patterns of thought that are unlikely to create any serious disruption of the status quo.

RENE DESCARTES (1596-1650) is usually considered the founder of modern philosophy, and, I think, rightly.

In Büchner’s world, Woyzeck has the dignity not of high rank or reputation, but which belongs to all human souls, and his tragedy is that he is unable to see it, is blind to his own worth and relies instead on something outside himself, his relationship with Marie.

(As much as the mind is

In Locke’s own day, his chief philosophical opponents were the Cartesians and Leibniz.