Contrary to other scholarship on Strauss, this paper argues that Strauss understands himself as having decisively rejected Nietzschean thought. First, I hold notwithstanding the agreement between and Nietzsche critique of modern culture, defects liberal democracy, flaws in some kinds historicism, sees unable extricate from trap standards. Nietzsche's philosophy needs natural standards, but he d...

Abstract This paper examines Hegel’s idea of nation and its significance for his theory the modern state, namely, role that ‘the national’ plays justification right in Philosophy Right . It is argued Hegel strikes a balance between historicism rational state law. He bases on notion Sittlichkeit (ethical life) both national subjected to world historical development toward rationality universal r...

i try to show that richard rorty, although is not a moral philosopher like kant, nerveless, has moral philosophy that must be taken seriously. rorty was not engaged with moral philosophy in the systematic manner common among leading modern and contemporary moral philosophers. this paper has two parts: first part, in brief, is concerned with principles of his philosophy such as anti-essentialism...

Colonialism and its after-effects of neo-colonialism and postcolonialism pervade the male-dominated literary tradition produced on the African continent. Within the complexities of these realities, the African woman may be said to be “doubly colonized” and her burdens multiple. Imprisoned then, by the authoritative phalluses which define her daily experiences and which seek to negate the authen...

The history of literary study is primarily remembered as a narrative of conflicting ideas. Critical movements clash, then establish a succession: New Criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, New Historicism. Although scholars have complicated this simple history-of-ideas story in recent decades with an emphasis on social and institutional struggle, generational conflict remains a central frame...

This article engages with the philosophical reflections of the French historian of science Hélène Metzger (1886-1944) in order to develop a vocabulary for understanding the rise of non-reductive Continental naturalism in the contemporary humanities. The bibliography of current naturalist approaches in the arts and the human sciences is still in the making, but it is altogether clear that the tr...

Italian railway architecture, dated from the last decades of the XIX Century, is characterized by the opposition between conflicting realities, tradition and innovation, that is historicism and modernism. So, it is often at the centre of the architectural debate to find a connotative language for this typology. Railway architecture was born from an almost “independent” culture encoded by manual...

The relevance of the chosen topic is determined by its insufficient study in national historical science. Based on pre-revolutionary legislation, archival materials, and periodicals, article examines peculiarities local government Siberia during imperial period. research grounded principles historicism objectivity reveals 18th – early 20th centuries. author comes to conclusion that administrati...