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Title

Von Platon bis Fukuyama : biologistische und zyklische Konzepte in der Geschichtsphilosophie der Antike und des Abendlandes / David Engels (Hg.).

Publication

Bruxelles : Editions Latomus, 2015.

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Additional Authors

Engels, David

Description

336 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

An important historical concept in many western schools of thought is the idea that political or cultural units can behave in a way that is analogous to the life cycle of bodies, experiencing biological stages such as birth, grown, maturity, old age, and death or rebirth. That concept still shapes our understanding today of the significant stages of any civilization. This volume includes a broad methodological introduction to this idea, along with selected contributions on the cyclical and biological concepts of history in the works of such varied thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, Sallust, Vergil, Livy, Seneca, Orosius, Simplius, Proclus, Joachim von Fiore, Machiavelli, Vico, Kant, Hegel, Spengler, Thomas Mann, Toynbee, Huntington, and Fukuyama.

Series Statement

Collection Latomus ; volume 349

Uniform Title

Collection Latomus v. 349.

Subject

• History > Philosophy
• History > History
• Cycles

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Papers presented as a cycle of lectures held at the Université libre de Bruxelles between 2010 and 2013.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Six contributions in German, 5 in French, and 3 in English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Biologistische und zyklische Geschichtsphilosophie : ein struktureller Annäherungsversuch / David Engels -- Présence et absence d'une philosophie de l'histoire chez Platon et Aristote / Sylvain Delcomminette -- Déterminisme historique et perceptions de déchéance sous la république tardive / David Engels -- Temporalité, dégradation et conversion : les néoplatoniciens d'Athènes face à l'histoire / Marc-Antoine Gavray -- On moral ends : Orosius and the circle of life in history / Peter van Nuffelen -- The spiny path of salvation : linear and cyclical structures of history in Joachim of Fiore / Julia Eva Wannenmacher -- L'histoire cyclique : Machiavel et l'aristotélisme de la Renaissance / Thamar Rossi Leidi -- Fondements métaphysiques et institution épistémologique de la philosophie moderne de l'histoire chez Giambattista Vico / Quentin Landenne -- The place of Kant's philosophy of history within the history of the philosophy of history / Vittorio Hösle -- "Ein schaffender Spiegel" : das Geschichtsbild Goethes / Alexander Demandt -- "Ducunt fata volentem, nolentem trahunt" : Hegel, Spengler und das Problem der Willensfreiheit im Geschichtsdeterminismus / David Engels -- Zauberhafter Untergang : Thomas Manns literarische Aneignung von Oswald Spenglers Geschichtsphilosophie / Barbara Besslich -- Der verschlafene Frimaire des Arnold Toynbee / Thomas Wangenheim -- Unter Ideologieverdacht : zur Auseinandersetzung mit Francis Fukuyamas "End of history" und Samuel P. Huntingtons "Clash of civilizations" in Deutschland / Christoph Brüll.

ISBN

• 9789042932746 (pbk.)
• 9042932740 (pbk.)

LCCN

9789042932746

OCLC

913723061

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library