Name: The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant (in English)
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Author: Kissinger, Henry a.
ISBN: 9789189425866

portada The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Henry Kissinger

Author

Henry a. Kissinger

Publisher

Bokforlaget Stolpe

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.4 x 17.3 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.93 kg.

ISBN13

9789189425866

Synopsis "The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant (in English)"

Exploring the dialectic between historical determinism and the exercise of free will, from the Enlightenment to WWII, by the former Secretary of StateThis volume presents Henry Kissinger's (born 1923) senior thesis from Harvard University, written in 1950 when he was 27 years old and published here in full for the first time over 70 years later. The text explores the thought of three distinct but important thinkers in the canon of Western philosophical and historical thought: Oswald Spengler, a German historian and philosopher; Arnold Toynbee, a British historian and philosopher; and Immanuel Kant, a Prussian of the European Enlightenment era and one of the most important philosophers to emerge from his time. At nearly 400 pages, it wrestles with some of the first-order dilemmas of Western political and moral thought, ranging in scope from the Enlightenment through to the midpoint of the 20th century--an era scourged by two world wars and the advent of the nuclear age.

Henry Kissinger

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(Alemania, 1923), de origen judío alemán, fue Asesor Nacional de Seguridad y luego Secretario de Estado con Richard Nixon y Gerald Ford y ha asesorado a muchos otros presidentes estadounidenses sobre cuestiones de política internacional. En 1973 recibió el premio Nobel de la Paz, y también ha obtenido la medalla de la Libertad, entre otros muchos premios y honores. Es autor de numerosos libros sobre política internacional como China (Debate, 2013) u Orden mundial (Debate, 2016). Actualmente preside Kissinger Associates, Inc., una consultoría internacional.

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