Transcendental History defends the claim that historicality is the very condition for human knowledge. By explaining this thesis, and by tracing its development from Kant and Hegel to Derrida and Agamben, this book enriches our understanding of the history of philosophy and contributes to epistemology and the philosophy of history.

SØREN GOSVIG OLESEN is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has translated Foucault, Derrida, Agamben and Heidegger into Danish, a ...