TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Fackenheim on the Historicity of Man

Monday 22 June 2026 is the 110th anniversary of the birth of Emil Ludwig Fackenheim (22 June 1916 – 18 September 2003), who was born in Halle, Saxony, on this date in 1916.

Fackenheim’s book, The God Within: Kant, Schelling, and Historicity (1996), collects and expands upon his earlier work on history, including “Kant’s Concept of History” (1957) and Metaphysics and Historicity (1961), Historicity is, for Fackenheim, the one of the central metaphysical problems of our time, and he nicely contrasts historicity with transcendence, which gives us some idea of how he understood the concept of historicity.

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TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: A Lunar Observation in AD 1178

On Sunday 18 June 1178—848 years ago today—at least five men witnessed a remarkable sight as they watched the moon in the evening sky apparently erupt in a violent episode, which was subsequently recorded by Gervase of Canterbury, who recorded their accounts in his chronicle. Can we make sense of these observations from nearly a millennium ago?

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TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Kjellén on the State as a Form of Life

Saturday 13 June 2026 is the 162nd anniversary of the birth of Johan Rudolf Kjellén (13 June 1864, in Torsö – 14 November 1922, in Uppsala), who was born in Torsö, Sweden, on this date in 1864.

Kjellén belonged the earliest efflorescence of geopolitical thought at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. He himself introduced the term “geopolitics,” as well as “Folkhemmet,” and he was among the first, if not the first, to explicitly present a theory of the state as a living organism.

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