Kierkegaard on the Philosophy of History

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-5

3. Hegel’s Philosophy of History

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   Pages 6-26

4. Kierkegaard’s Concept of History

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   Pages 27-50

5. The Structure of the Kierkegaardian ‘Self’

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   Pages 51-79

6. Hegel’s Philosophy of History and Kierkegaard’s Concept of History: A Synthesis Instead of a Confrontation

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   Pages 80-127

7. Heidegger’s Response to the Problem of History

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   Pages 128-146

8. Conclusion

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   Pages 147-150

9. Back Matter

   Pages 151-187

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History doesn't have to mean only an effort to know the past. It can be instead, according to Kierkegaard, a willful and personal choice regarding the creation of the future. Kierkegaard offers us an amazing new approach to the problem of what is history and who makes it.

• Kierkegaard
• philosophy of history
• existentialism
• temporality
• freedom
• necessity
• becoming
• future
• personal responsibility
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Hegel
• history
• philosophy
• Sören Kierkegaard

• University of Liverpool, UK

  Georgios Patios

Georgios Patios is a former Lecturer in Philosophy at the Department of the Continuing Education of the University of Liverpool, UK.  He is currently researching on Kant's epistemology, Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's Ethics.

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