History: Narration, Interpretation, OrientationWithout 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. |
Contents
Foundation Types Reason | 9 |
Chapter 2 | 21 |
Chapter 3 | 41 |
Chapter 4 | 59 |
Chapter 5 | 77 |
Chapter 6 | 93 |
Chapter 7 | 109 |
Chapter 8 | 129 |
Chapter 9 | 147 |
Chapter 10 | 163 |
Chapter 11 | 189 |
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Common terms and phrases
academic aesthetic Annales School argument basic become Bodo von Borries Broszat Burckhardt character characterized cognitive coherence collective identity concept of historical criteria critical dimension discipline discourse Droysen elements empirical explicated Frankfurt am Main Friedländer function fundamental genetic Geschichte historians historical consciousness historical experience historical identity historical interpretation historical knowledge historical memory historical narration historical research historical sense historical studies historical thinking historical thought historicism historiography Historische Holocaust human activity human mind human world ical idea idem Jacob Burckhardt Jörn Rüsen Jürgen Kocka Leopold von Ranke logic Maclonich Martin Broszat Max Weber meaningful means mental Metahistory modern moral narrative National Socialism objectivity past patterns political postmodern practical pregiven present principles of historical procedures question Ranke Ranke's relationship rhetoric role Saul Friedländer scientific self-understanding significance specifically historical strategy structure subjectivity temporal change theoretical theory tion torical tory traditional typology validity