| Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century recognizes the ambiguities of pleasure and historicizes what may initially seem an ahistorical or even nonhistorical topic. |
| Indeed, hers is a strikingly nonhistorical and nondialectical account of antagonistic social dynamics constitutive of an apprehensible social totality. |
| The god they present is neither the impassive god of the Oriental nor the nonhistorical god of the Deist. |
| His history, moreover, takes place in a nonhistorical context a contest between virtue and fortune. |
| A lot of philosophy is more blankly nonhistorical now than it has ever been. |
| He urges us to read Aquinas as responding to a series of conflicts rather than as pontificating from a nonhistorical perspective. |
