Why history? : a history /
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 t...
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
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2020
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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