Imagination And History

Author : David J. Staley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000336146

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Historical Imagination by David J. Staley Pdf

Historical Imagination examines the threshold between what historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the malpractice of excessive imagination, asking where the boundary between the two sits and the limits of permitted imagination for the historian. We use "imagination" to refer to a mental skill that encompasses two different tasks: the reconstruction of previously experienced parts of the world and the creation of new objects and experiences with no direct connection to the actual world. In history, imagination means using the mind's eye to picture both the actual and inactual at the same time. All historical works employ at least some creative imagination, but an excess is considered "too much". Under what circumstances are historians permitted to cross this boundary into creative imagination and how far can they go? Supporting theory with relatable examples, Staley shows how historical works are a complex combination of mimetic and creative imagination and offers a heuristic for assessing this ratio in any work of history. Setting out complex theoretical concepts in an accessible and understandable manner and encouraging the reader to consider both the nature and limits of historical imagination, this is an ideal volume for students and scholars of the philosophy of history.

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1845454286

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The Modernist Imagination by Martin Jay Pdf

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.

Author : John Cocking
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134932085

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Imagination by John Cocking Pdf

The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ages; its influence on painting and music continues to be debated. It has been simultaneously feared as a dangerous, uncontrollable force and revered as the supreme visionary power. Cocking's Imagination is an exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The book opens with a treatment of imagination in the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Developments in the Middle Ages are traced, with particular attention to the parallel tradition in Islamic thought of the period and the book pursues the concept through the theories of Dante and the Neo-platonists to the High Renaissance. The manuscript was left unfinished on Professor Cocking's death in 1986 and has been edited by Penelope Murray, who adds an introductory essay. The book will be of particular value as a background to the explosion of interest in the imagination in the Romantic period.

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Historiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038719632

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The Historical Imagination by Robin George Collingwood Pdf

Author : R. G. Collingwood
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781528766838

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The Idea of History by R. G. Collingwood Pdf

Robin George Collingwood, FBA (1889 – 1943) was an English historian, philosopher, and archaeologist most famous his philosophical works. Along with “The Principles of Art” (1938), Collingwood's “The Idea of History” was his best-known work, originally collated from numerous sources following his death by a student of his, T. M. Knox. It became a major inspiration for philosophy of history in the western world and is extensively cited to his day. This fascinating volume on history and its relationship to philosophy will appeal to students and collectors of vintage philosophical works alike. Contents include: “The Philosophy of History”, “History's Nature”, “Object”, “Method”, “Greco-Roman Histography”, “The Influence of Christianity”, “The Threshold of Scientific History”, “Scientific History”, “England”, “Germany”, “France”, “Italy”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume today in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Kerwin Lee Klein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520924185

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Frontiers of Historical Imagination by Kerwin Lee Klein Pdf

The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was once the frontier space where migrating Europe collided with Native America, where the historical civilizations of the Old World met the nonhistorical wilds of the New. It was not only the cultural combat zone where American democracy was forged but also the ragged edge of History itself, where historical and nonhistorical defied and defined each other. Klein maintains that the idea of a collision between people with and without history still dominates public memory. But the collision, he believes, resounds even more powerfully in the historical imagination, which creates conflicts between narration and knowledge and carries them into the language used to describe the American frontier. In Klein's words, "We remain obscurely entangled in philosophies of history we no longer profess, and the very idea of 'America' balances on history's shifting frontiers."

Author : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012892470

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History and Imagination by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Pdf

Author : Norman Lock
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1573661155

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History of the Imagination by Norman Lock Pdf

A History of the Imagination is a postmodern tale of adventure that reshapes the parameters of time and space, thought and action. In a metaphorical Africa, replete with nostalgia (but no dimensions), anything can happen and usually does. The narrator defends his magical departures, saying his is a history of possibilities, where fiction is "no less real for it's] being so." But when Darwin's corpse begins to lust after Colette and the African porters go on strike because the author hasn't acknowledged the important role they play, we are left to wonder: just how far is reality from dreams? Norman Lock juxtaposes remote times and places, historical facts and literary fictions, to create an absurdist collage reminiscent of Guy Davenport and Donald Barthelme. In this world it is not impossible to sail from Mombasa to Cinncinati, or to set out from the City of Radiant Objects, where "things are free of the obligation to signify," or to go hunting icebergs in a quest to avenge the Titanic at last. Borne aloft by Wilbur Wright, Jules Verne, Ziegfield, and Houdini, we find ourselves lost again in a "seam in the world...between History and Imagination."

Author : John Comaroff,Jean Comaroff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429719318

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Ethnography And The Historical Imagination by John Comaroff,Jean Comaroff Pdf

Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained, eroded, and negated? How does the social imagination take shape in novel yet collectively meaningful ways? Addressing these questions, the essays in this volume–several never before published–work toward an "imaginative sociology," demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. In the introduction, the authors offer their most complete statement to date on the nature of historical anthropology. Standing apart from the traditional disciplines of social history and modernist social science, their work is dedicated to discovering how human worlds are made and signified, forgotten and remade.

Author : Donald R. Kelley,David Harris Sacks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521590698

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The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain by Donald R. Kelley,David Harris Sacks Pdf

Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.

Author : Ronald V. Morris
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610482981

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History and Imagination by Ronald V. Morris Pdf

In History and Imagination, elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship. By collaborating together in meaningful investigations into the past and reenacting history, students will become experts who interpret their findings, teach their peers, and relate their experiences to those of older students, neighbors, parents, and grandparents. The byproduct of this collaborative, intergenerational learning is that schools become community learning centers, just like museums and libraries, where families can go together in order to find out more about the topics that interest them. There is an incredible value in the shared and lived experiences of reenacting the past, of meeting people from different places and times: an authority and reality that textbooks cannot rival. By engaging elementary social studies students in living history, whether in the classroom, after school, or in partnership with local historical institutions, teachers are guaranteed to impress upon the students a special, desired understanding of place and time.

Author : Peter Walls
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Incorporated
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 1843830051

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History, Imagination, and the Performance of Music by Peter Walls Pdf

Both a defence of research aiming to recover how music sounded in the past and an argument for the application of such historical research to performance.

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520917514

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The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay Pdf

Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has provided a substantial new preface for this edition, in which he reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of the Frankfurt School.

Author : David Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317620327

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Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals) by David Simpson Pdf

Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of Wordsworth, arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance of the context of the public sphere and the social environment to the authentic experience of the imagination. Wordsworth’s preoccupation with the metaphors of property and labour shows him to be acutely anxious about the value of his art in a world that he regarded as corrupted. Through close examination of a few important poems, both well-known and relatively unknown, Simpson shows that there is no unitary, public Wordsworth, nor is there a conflict or tension between the private and the public. The absence of any clear kind of authority in the voice that speaks the poems makes Wordsworth’s poetry, in Simpson’s phrase, a ‘poetry of displacement’.

Author : Andrew Shryock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520916388

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Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination by Andrew Shryock Pdf

This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate historians lead him through a world of hidden documents, contested photographs, and meticulously reconstructed pedigrees, Andrew Shryock describes how he becomes enmeshed in historical debates, ranging from the local to the national level. The world the Bedouin inhabit is rich in oral tradition and historical argument, in subtle reflections on the nature of truth and its relationship to poetics, textuality, and power. Skillfully blending anthropology and history, Shryock discusses the substance of tribal history through the eyes of its creators—those who sustain an older tradition of authoritative oral history and those who have experimented with the first written accounts. His focus throughout is on the development of a "genealogical nationalism" as well as on the tensions that arise between tribe and state. Rich in both personal revelation and cultural implications, this book poses a provocative challenge to traditional assumptions about the way history is written.