Effective History : On Critical Practice Under Historical Conditions

Effective History presents its reader with a thorough explanation and evaluation of H.-G. Gadamer's concept of "e;effective history,"e; not only as it pertains to the broader range of hermeneutic and postmodern thinkers working in the wake of Kantian philosophy, but first and foremost as a careful and measured consideration of the practice of effective history as a critical method for philosophy in our current times.