Why history? : a history
Donald Bloxham
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | xi, 396 sider
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| Utgave | First edition
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| Opplysninger | On 'Modern Historical Consciousness' -- Continuity and Change in Justifications for History -- 1: Classical History between Epic and Rhetoric -- Introduction -- Genealogy, Ethnography, and Historical Consciousness -- Rhetoric, Purpose, Truth -- Useful and Pleasurable History -- From Greek to Roman Historiography -- Philosophy, Poetry, History: A Greek in Rome -- Roman Historiography in the Late Republic -- History under Monarchy -- Pre- and Anti-Christian Influences 2: History, Faith, Fortuna -- Introduction -- Classical-Christian Fusion -- Christianity and Judaism -- Early Christian Historiography -- Christian Philosophy of History -- On Causation: Determinism and Human Agency -- 3: The 'Middle Age' -- Introduction -- Annals and Ancestry -- Exemplarity, Allegory, and the Presence of the Past -- Periodization and the Conceptualization of Change -- Theology, Religious Hermeneutics, and History as Communion -- Socio-Economic Change and the Function of Genealogies --History and Developments in Political Identity -- 'Others' Present and Past -- 4: Renaissances and Reformations -- Introduction -- Re-Encounters -- Romans, Greeks, Goths -- Developments in Source Criticism? -- Changed Circumstances, Contested Purposes -- The Return of Similitudo Temporum -- Sixteenth-Century French Historiography -- Modern Contextualization? -- Montaigne -- Church, State, and Historianship: A Comparative Perspective -- Ecclesiastical History and Source Criticism -- History in the Scientific Seventeenth Century -- 5: Society, Nature, Emancipation -- Introduction -- Prelude: Bolingbroke and Vico -- The French Enlightenment -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- The German Enlightenment and Early Romanticism -- Hegel -- Marx -- 6: Nationalism, Historicism, Crisis -- Introduction -- Nationalism, Romanticism, Whiggery -- Historicism and Developmental Thought -- Alternatives to the Dominant German Model in the 1860s --Reactions to Historicism --New Philosophies of Historical 'Neutrality' from the Later Nineteenth Century -- 'Progressive' History -- The Decline of Historicism and the Rise of German Social History -- 7: Turns to the Present -- Introduction -- Structures and Superstructures -- Structures and Events -- From Interwar to Post-War -- Social History, Sociology, Modernization -- Social History, Experience, Identity -- Language and Culture -- Theory and History -- New New Histories -- 8: Justifying History Today -- Introduction -- History as Speculative Philosophy -- History as Method -- Knowledge and Human Interests -- History as Practical Lesson -- History as Moral Lesson -- History as Travel, History as Tolerance? -- History as Therapy -- Varieties of Emancipatory History -- History as Emancipation III -- History as Emancipation II -- History as Emancipation I -- History as Identity.. - What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? 'Why History? A History' contemplates two and a half thousand years of historianship to establish how very different thinkers in diverse contexts have conceived their activities, and to illustrate the purposes that their historical investigations have served. Whether considering Herodotus, medieval religious exegesis, or twentieth-century cultural history, at the core of this work is the way that the present has been conceived to relate to the past. Alongside many changes in technique and philosophy, Donald Bloxham's book reveals striking long-term continuities in justifications for the discipline.
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| ISBN | 9780198858720 : £35.00
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