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"""A perennial challenge for existential anthropology is how to reconcile situated accounts of ethics, time, and personhood with universalizing accounts of the human condition. The diverse and penetrating essays in this volume show how such a cross-cultural approach to issues of temporality, historicity, and morality may be developed and applied."" --Michael Jackson, Senior Research Fellow in World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, USA ""Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History brings together scholars from different philosophical traditions to provide fresh perspectives on fundamental issues. Its unifying concern is with humans as beings-in-time: what it means to be shaped historically and what obligations and possibilities may flow from understanding that shaping. The book deserves an audience right across the humanities."" --Donald Bloxham, Richard Pares Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, UK ""This timely collection brings to bear a welcome existential and hermeneutical approach to the contemporary issues of the philosophy of culture and history. Often rooted in personal experience, as good philosophy always is, its rich contributions shed new light on our ethical experience of time and mortality in this uncertain 21st century."" --Jean Grondin, Professor of Philosophy, University of Montréal, Canada"

A perennial challenge for existential anthropology is how to reconcile situated accounts of ethics, time, and personhood with universalizing accounts of the human condition. The diverse and penetrating essays in this volume show how such a cross-cultural approach to issues of temporality, historicity, and morality may be developed and applied. * Michael Jackson, Senior Research Fellow in World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, USA * Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History brings together scholars from different philosophical traditions to provide fresh perspectives on fundamental issues. Its unifying concern is with humans as beings-in-time: what it means to be shaped historically and what obligations and possibilities may flow from understanding that shaping. The book deserves an audience right across the humanities. * Donald Bloxham, Richard Pares Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, UK * This timely collection brings to bear a welcome existential and hermeneutical approach to the contemporary issues of the philosophy of culture and history. Often rooted in personal experience, as good philosophy always is, its rich contributions shed new light on our ethical experience of time and mortality in this uncertain 21st century. * Jean Grondin, Professor of Philosophy, University of Montréal, Canada *

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Natan Elgabsi is Postdoctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Bennett Gilbert is Assistant Professor at Portland State University, USA.

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