For an a-rational philosophy of history KU Leuven
The demise of substantive philosophies of history in the spirit of Hegel, among historians, is generally held to be the result of rational progress signalling the overcoming of metaphysics by a more scientific and critical historical ethos. However, the issue of speculation has not simply gone away, as thinkers like Reinhart Koselleck and François Hartog have demonstrated. Neither can a distinction between unscientific speculation and a ...