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The term 'critique of historical reason' is the name of a phantom book that the famous social theorist Dilthey wrote or else spent his life attempting to write. The association springs from the feeling that Kant's famous Three Critiques should be followed by a fourth, perhaps one devoted to history. Such a critique might take many forms, and our eonic model is ironically cast between the mode of metaphysics attempting to pursue an 'idea of reason', the 'idea for a universal history', and the critical mode of showing and/or exposing the metaphysics of historical theories that DON'T attempt Big History. Thus Popper rejects Big History as in Marx as ideology, but we can embrace the critique and turn it against the ideologies of flat history, the prime case being that of the Darwinian 'philosophy of history' with its promotion of conflict. More generally we can see that Kant's Third Antinomy shows how Popper's critique works, the statement of historical law proposes causality to freedom, and we see the shortcircuit made into a formal discourse of Kant's first critique.
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