Download or read book Thinking Past a Problem written by Professor Preston King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor King's concept of the philosophy of history leads him to offer this demonstration of the incoherence, even absurdity, of the notion that the past can have nothing to teach us - whether posed by those who argue that history is "unique" or that it is merely "contextual".