Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History : Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx

• Published in: Multicultural dynamics and the ends of history p. ix
• Main Author: Fillion, Réal
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Ottawa University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l' Universite d'Ottawa 2008; University of Ottawa Press; University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa; University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa
• Edition: 1
• Series: Philosophica
• Subjects: Antonio Negri; Book Industry Communication; Ethics; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Hegel; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831; History; Human; Humanities; Immanuel Kant; Kant; Kant, Immanuel; Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804; Karl Marx; Marx; Marx, Karl; Marx, Karl, 1818-1883; Moral philosophy; Multiculturalism; PHILOSOPHY; Philosophy and Religion; Political; Political philosophy; Social; Social philosophy; Social theory; Society; Sociological theory; Speculative philosophy; Telos; thema EDItEUR; 1818-1883; 1770-1831; 1724-1804
• ISBN: 0776617605; 9780776617602; 0776606700; 9780776606705
• DOI: 10.26530/oapen_628397

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.