Authority And History

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107469891

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Authority by Frank Furedi Pdf

Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority dominated Europe through the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The modern world attempted to develop new foundations for authority – democratic consent, public opinion, science – yet Furedi shows that this problem has remained unresolved, arguing that today the authority of authority is questioned. This historical sociology of authority seeks to explain how the contemporary problems of mistrust and the loss of legitimacy of many institutions are informed by the previous attempts to solve the problem of authority. It argues that the key pioneers of the social sciences (Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, Tonnies and especially Weber) regarded this question as one of the principal challenges facing society.

Author : Francis X. Blouin Jr.,William G. Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199324026

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Processing the Past by Francis X. Blouin Jr.,William G. Rosenberg Pdf

Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists. Written by an archivist and a historian, it shows how these changes have been brought on by new historical thinking, new conceptions of archives, changing notions of historical authority, modifications in archival practices, and new information technologies. The book takes an "archival turn" by situating archives as subjects rather than places of study, and examining the increasingly problematic relationships between historical and archival work. By showing how nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians and archivists in Europe and North America came to occupy the same conceptual and methodological space, the book sets the background to these changes. In the past, authoritative history was based on authoritative archives and mutual understandings of scientific research. These connections changed as historians began to ask questions not easily answered by traditional documentation, and archivists began to confront an unmanageable increase in the amount of material they processed and the challenges of new electronic technologies. The authors contend that historians and archivists have divided into two entirely separate professions with distinct conceptual frameworks, training, and purposes, as well as different understandings of the authorities that govern their work. Processing the Past moves toward bridging this divide by speaking in one voice to these very different audiences. Blouin and Rosenberg conclude by raising the worrisome question of what future historical archives might be like if historical scholars and archivists no longer understand each other, and indeed, whether their now different notions of what is archival and historical will ever again be joined.

Author : John Marincola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521480191

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Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography by John Marincola Pdf

This book is a study of the various claims to authority made by the ancient Greek and Roman historians throughout their histories and is the first to examine all aspects of the historian's self-presentation. It shows how each historian claimed veracity by imitating, modifying, and manipulating the traditions established by his predecessors. Beginning with a discussion of the tension between individuality and imitation, it then categorises and analyses the recurring style used to establish the historian's authority: how he came to write history; the qualifications he brought to the task; the inquiries and efforts he made in his research; and his claims to possess a reliable character. By detailing how each historian used the tradition to claim and maintain his own authority, the book contributes to a better understanding of the complex nature of ancient historiography.

Author : Federico Santangelo,Juliana Bastos Marques
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Authority
ISBN : 1350269476

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Authority and History by Federico Santangelo,Juliana Bastos Marques Pdf

"This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions of the classical rhetorical ethos. Ancient rhetoric set out the rules of authority in discourse, and directly affected the claims of Greek and Roman historians to truth. These working principles were consolidated in modern tradition, but not without modifications. The contemporary world, in its turn, subverts in many new ways the weight of the author's claim to legitimacy and truth, through the active role of the audiences. How have the ancient claims to authority worked and changed from their own times to our post-modern, digital world? Online uses and outreach displays of the classical past, especially through social media, have altered the balance of the authority traditionally bestowed upon the ancients, demonstrating what the linguistic turn has shown: the role of the reader is as important as that of the writer"--

Author : Thomas L. Haskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037610537

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The Authority of Experts by Thomas L. Haskell Pdf

Author : Michael Frisch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0791401332

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A Shared Authority by Michael Frisch Pdf

A collection of 13 previously published essays by Frisch (American studies, SUNY). Among them are general reflections on oral history, collective memory, and American culture and history; detailed studies of specific issues in documentary work; and considerations of public history and programming. Examples used include the unemployed, Chinese students, and the television history of the Vietnam War. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Gail Radford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226037691

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The Rise of the Public Authority by Gail Radford Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal and financial barriers, they created a new class of quasi-public agencies called public authorities. Today these entities operate at all levels of government, and range from tiny operations like the Springfield Parking Authority in Massachusetts, which runs thirteen parking lots and garages, to mammoth enterprises like the Tennessee Valley Authority, with nearly twelve billion dollars in revenues each year. In The Rise of the Public Authority, Gail Radford recounts the history of these inscrutable agencies, examining how and why they were established, the varied forms they have taken, and how these pervasive but elusive mechanisms have molded our economy and politics over the past hundred years.

Author : R. Millar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230282032

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Authority and Identity by R. Millar Pdf

This is a history of Europe unlike any other: a theory-informed history of its language use. The 'rise' and 'fall' of languages are recounted, along with an analysis of why periods of linguistic diversity are followed by hegemony. How did the sociolinguistic past differ from the sociolinguistic present?

Author : Matthew Rowley,Natasha Hodgson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000473827

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Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History by Matthew Rowley,Natasha Hodgson Pdf

This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods. Contributors explore miracles, political authority and violence in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, various Protestant groups, Judaism, Islam and the local religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders who interacted with Christians. The chapters are geographically expansive, with contributions ranging from confessional conflict in Poland-Lithuania to the conquest of Oceania. They examine various types of conflict such as confessional struggles, conversion attempts, assassination and war, as well as themes including diplomacy, miraculous iconography, toleration, theology and rhetoric. Together, the chapters explore the appropriation of accounts of miraculous violence that are recorded in sacred texts to reveal what partisans claimed God did in conflict, and how they claimed to know. The volume investigates theories of justified warfare, changing beliefs about the supernatural with the advent of modernity and the perceived relationship between human and divine agency. Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History is of interest to scholars and students in several fields including religion and violence, political and military history, and theology and the reception of sacred texts in the medieval and early modern world.

Author : Margarita Zamora
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521350877

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Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the Comentarios Reales de Los Incas by Margarita Zamora Pdf

This study of the Comentarios is original both in adopting the perspective of discourse analysis and in its interdisciplinary approach.

Author : Elizabeth Rich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793644848

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Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth-Century Literature by Elizabeth Rich Pdf

After the Fact: Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth-Century Literature examines historiographic metafiction’s epistemological concern with the historical document. The six texts herein recover official and neglected documents, viewing history from marginal perspectives endeavoring an ethical reconsideration of dominant historical narratives. Thematically paired chapters focus on eye-witness narratives, legal and official government documents, and news publications. The first two chapters, D.M. Thomas’ The White Hotel with Toni Morrison’s Beloved, explore the writers’ reconsideration of eye-witness accounts, specifically the Holocaust survivor narrative and the slave narrative. The second pair reviews mythologies of the nation in the United States. Susan Howe’s Singularities rewrites the Indian captivity narrative. Hannah Weiner’s Spoke revises the 1868 Black Hills treaty to focus on how popular and official texts promote the colonial imaginary and function to justify colonial expansion. The final two chapters examine Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Robert Coover’s The Public Burning, which critique the press’s authority by questioning its claim to objectivity.

Author : Shari Boodts,Johan Leemans,Brigitte Meijns
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Auteur (esthétique)
ISBN : 2503568238

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Shaping Authority by Shari Boodts,Johan Leemans,Brigitte Meijns Pdf

The cultural and religious history from Antiquity through the Renaissance may be read through the lens of the rise and demise of auctoritates. Throughout this long period of about two millennia, many historical persons have been considered as exceptionally authoritative. Obviously, this authority derived from their personal achievements. But one does not become an authority on one's own. In many cases, the way an authority's achievements were received and disseminated by their contemporaries and later generations, was the determining factor in the construction of their authority. This volume focuses on the latter aspect: what are the mechanisms and strategies by which participants in intellectual life at large have shaped the authority of historical persons? On what basis, why and how were some persons singled out above their peers as exceptional auctoritates and by which processes did this continue (or discontinue) over time? What imposed geographical or other limits on the development and expansion of a person's auctoritas? Which circumstances led to the disintegration of the authority of persons previously considered to be authoritative? The case-studies in this volume reflect the dazzling variety of trajectories, concerns, actors and factors that contributed over a time span of two millennia to the fashioning of the postmortem and lasting authority of historical persons.

Author : Paul Betts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520941359

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The Authority of Everyday Objects by Paul Betts Pdf

From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past. The Authority of Everyday Objects details how the postwar period gave rise to a new design culture comprising a sprawling network of diverse interest groups—including the state and industry, architects and designers, consumer groups and museums, as well as publicists and women's organizations—who all identified industrial design as a vital means of economic recovery, social reform, and even moral regeneration. These cultural battles took on heightened importance precisely because the stakes were nothing less than the very shape and significance of West German domestic modernity. Betts tells the rich and far-reaching story of how and why commodity aesthetics became a focal point for fashioning a certain West German cultural identity. This book is situated at the very crossroads of German industry and aesthetics, Cold War politics and international modernism, institutional life and visual culture.

Author : John Marincola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521545781

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Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography by John Marincola Pdf

This book is a study of the various claims to authority made by the ancient Greek and Roman historians throughout their histories, and of the way in which the tradition of ancient historiography shaped their responses and molded the presentation of themselves to their audience. Guiding them in their claims to be authoritative was the tradition of the founders and best practitioners of history, Herodotus and Thucydides.

Author : Holly Brewer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807839126

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By Birth or Consent by Holly Brewer Pdf

In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus elite children could designate property or serve in Parliament, while children of the poorer sort might be forced to sign labor contracts or be hanged for arson or picking pockets. By the late eighteenth century, however, English and American law began to emphasize contractual relations based on informed consent rather than on birth status. In By Birth or Consent, Holly Brewer explores how the changing legal status of children illuminates the struggle over consent and status in England and America. As it emerged through religious, political, and legal debates, the concept of meaningful consent challenged the older order of birthright and became central to the development of democratic political theory. The struggle over meaningful consent had tremendous political and social consequences, affecting the whole order of society. It granted new powers to fathers and guardians at the same time that it challenged those of masters and kings. Brewer's analysis reshapes the debate about the origins of modern political ideology and makes connections between Reformation religious debates, Enlightenment philosophy, and democratic political theory.