Kierkegaard on the Philosophy of History [Hardcover]

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.Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Hegel's Philosophy of History 2. Kierkegaard's Concept of History 3. The Structure of the Kierkegaardian Self 4. Hegel's Philosophy of History and Kierkegaard's Concept of History: A Synthesis Instead of a Confrontation 5. Heidegger's Response to the Problem of History Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography IndexGeorgios 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.