Philosophies of History: From Enlightenment to Post-Modernity

Robert M. Burns is Lecturer in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, London. He completed undergraduate degrees in History and Theology and obtained his doctorate at Princeton University in philosophy of religion. In the last ten years at Goldsmiths he has introduced and developed courses in the history of philosophy including a course in philosophy of history out of which the present book emerged. He is the author of The Great Debate on Miracles: From Joseph Glanvill to David Hume (1981).

Hugh Rayment-Pickard received his PhD from the University of London for a thesis on Jacques Derrida. He taught philosophy of history and history of philosophy for several years in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is also a priest in the Church of England