Transcendental History - Hardcover

by David D. Possen (Translator), Søren Gosvig Olesen (Author)

Transcendental History defends the claim that historicality is the very condition for human knowledge. By explaining this thesis, and by tracing its development from Kant and Hegel to Derrida and Agamben, this book enriches our understanding of the history of philosophy and contributes to epistemology and the philosophy of history.

Author Biography

SØREN GOSVIG OLESEN is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has translated Foucault, Derrida, Agamben and Heidegger into Danish, and has written several books in Danish on transcendental philosophy and deconstruction.

DAVID D. POSSEN, a postdoctoral researcher at Yale and the University of Copenhagen, holds a Joint Ph.D. in Philosophy and Social Thought from the University of Chicago. He has translated numerous academic articles from Danish and German into English. This is his first book-length translation.