History: narration, interpretation, orientation
by Rüsen, Jörn
Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of aspects, factors and developments of historical thinking from the 18th century to the present, thus continuing, in exemplary fashion, the tradition of critical self-reflection in the humanities and looking…
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- Full title :History : narration, interpretation, orientation / Jörn Rüsen.
Summary
Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of aspects, factors and developments of historical thinking from the 18th century to the present, thus continuing, in exemplary fashion, the tradition of critical self-reflection in the humanities and looking at historical studies as an important factor of cultural orientation in practical life.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (232 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781782389675, 1782389679
- oclc:on1272091638
- LC Classification:D16.8
- Dewey Decimal:907/.2
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures; Preface <a href="/downloads/intros/RuesenHistory_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> Introduction: How to Understand Historical Thinking; PART I: NARRATION Chapter 1. Historical Narration: Foundation, Types, Reason; Chapter 2. Narrative Competence: The Ontogeny of Historical and Moral Consciousness; Chapter 3. Rhetoric and Aesthetics of History: Leopold von Ranke; Chapter 4. Narrativity and Objectivity in Historical Studies PART II: INTERPRETATION Chapter 5. What is Historical Theory?; Chapter 6. New History: Paradigms of Interpretation; Chapter 7. Theoretical Approaches to an Intercultural Comparison of Historiography; Chapter 8. Loosening the Order of History: Modernity, Postmodernity, Memory PART III: ORIENTATION Chapter 9. Historical Thinking as Trauerarbeit: Burckhardt's Answer to a Question of our Time; Chapter 10. Historizing Nazi-Time: Metahistorical Reflections on the Debate Between Friedländer and Broszat; Chapter 11. Holocaust-Memory and German Identity Bibliography; Index
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