2013年1月19日 星期六

Seeing Things Hidden: Apocalypse, Vision, and Totality


















Malcolm Bull teaches at Oxford University's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. The author of "The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art" and "Anti-Nietzsche", he has also published extensively in philosophy and the social sciences.

Seeing Things Hidden

Apocalypse, Vision, and Totality
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Verso, 1999 - History - 342 pages
The multiplicity of the self and the inaccessibility of truth are commonplaces of contemporary thought. But in Seeing Things Hidden they become key features of a philosophy of history that reunites emancipatory political theory with the apocalyptic tradition.Exploiting affinities between the work of Lukacs and recent American philosophers like Rorty and Cavell, Bull argues that the central dynamic of late modernity is the coming into hiding of the contradictory identities generated through political and social emancipation. Drawing on analytic and Continental philosophy he articulates the most ambitious philosophy of history since Francis Fukuyama's The End of History, presenting fresh interpretations of such icons of modernity as Hegel's master-slave dialectic, Benjamin's angel of history, Du Bois's concept of double consciousness, and Rawls's veil of ignorance.


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