The "presuppositions" of a "critical" form of this concept were the subject of the first published work by F. H. Bradley.  Wilhelm Dilthey [dill-TIE] wanted to write a critique of this form of reason,
The "presuppositions" of a "critical" form of this concept were the subject of the first published work by F. H. Bradley.  Wilhelm Dilthey [dill-TIE] wanted to write a critique of this form of reason, but never got around to it.  Benedetto Croce [CROW-chay] wrote an important essay on this "subsumed under the concept of art," and later wrote a book on it "as the story of liberty."  The "influence of Christianity" on it and various "scientific" forms of it are discussed in a book on the "idea" of it by R. G. Collingwood.  More famously, the philosophy of it is discussed in a work which introduces the dubious concept of the "cunning of reason."  FTP, name this concept which was paired with "class consciousness" in a book by Gyorgy Lukacs [loo-KAZH], the "philosophy" of which is the subject of a famous set of lectures by Hegel.
The "presuppositions" of a "critical" form of this concept were the subject of the first published work by F. H. Bradley.  
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