Abstract
Reexamines An Introduction to Philosophy of History, written in 1951 by British historian William Henry Walsh (1913-86), better known as W. H. Walsh. Walsh was a pioneer in the subject of the philosophy of history, viewing it from the perspectives of critical (or analytical) philosophy and speculative philosophy. The article returns to Walsh’s early standard work on the subject of philosophy and history, under the light of new, late-20th-century, philosophical theories applied to historical research, such as postmodernism and deconstruction, to determine how Walsh’s ideas on the interpretation and the explanation of history stand up. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]
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