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Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : History
ISBN : 9781465592736
Author : M.C. Lemon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134717460
Philosophy of History is an essential introduction to a vast body of writing about history, from classical Greece and Rome to the modern world. M.C. Lemon maps out key debates and central concepts of philosophy of history, placing principal thinkers in the context of their times and schools of thought. Lemon explains the crucial differences between speculative philosophy as an enquiry into the content of history, and analytic philosophy of history as relating to the methods of history. The first two parts of the book trace each of these traditions, whereas the third part revisits both in the light of recent contributions to the discipline. This guide provides a comprehensive survey of historical thought since ancient times. Its clear terminology and lucid argument will make it an invaluable source for students and teachers alike.
Author : Richard Rorty,Jerome B. Schneewind,Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521273307
Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.
Author : Michael Stanford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780631199410
This book uncovers the wealth of philosophical problems that history presents, and encourages further thought on how these issues grow out of historical questions.
Author : Frank Ankersmit,Hans Kellner
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780231624
What is history? From Thucydides to Toynbee historians and nonhistorians alike have wondered how to answer this question. A New Philosophy of History reflects on developments over the last two decades in historical writing, not least the renewed interest in the status of narrative itself and the presence of the authorial "voice." Subjects include the problems of Grand Narrative, multiple voices and the personal presence of the historian in his text, the ambitions of the French Annales school and the so-called "Grand Chronicler," and the relevance of non-literary models—museum presentations and picturings—regarding historical discourse. The range of approaches found in A New Philosophy of History ensures that this book will establish itself as required reading not only for historians, but for everyone interested in literary theory, philosophy, or cultural studies. This volume presents essays by Hans Kellner, Nancy F. Partner, Richard T. Vann, Arthur C. Danto, Linda Orr, Philippe Carrard, Ann Rigney, Allan Megill, Robert Berkhofer, Stephen Bann, and Frank Ankersmit.
Author : Karl Löwith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226162294
Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint—from a deep faith in the Kingdom of God or a belief in recurrent and eternal life-cycles. The modern mind, however, is neither Christian nor pagan—and its interpretations of history are Christian in derivation and anti-Christian in result. To develop this theory, Karl Löwith—beginning with the more accessible philosophies of history in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries and working back to the Bible—analyzes the writings of outstanding historians both in antiquity and in Christian times. "A book of distinction and great importance. . . . The author is a master of philosophical interpretation, and each of his terse and substantial chapters has the balance of a work of art."—Helmut Kuhn, Journal of Philosophy
Author : Branko Mitrovic´
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793620019
What does it mean for our understanding of history if we assume that everything is physical and that no immaterial entities, forces, or phenomena exist? A Materialist Philosophy of History: A Realist Antidote to Postmodernism examines the implications of a materialist worldview in contemporary philosophy of history. Materialism has wide-ranging consequences for historical research as well as for the credibility of various conceptions of the historical past. Branko Mitrović shows how these implications pertain both to the nature of social institutions and the capacities of historical figures to decide, act, acquire beliefs, and communicate and to the methodology of historical research and problems, such as the interpretation and the translation of historical documents. A materialist view also entails rejecting the view that forces such as culture, language, or society can construct physical reality or that the historical past is constructed through the work of the historian. This book examines these consequences and presents a comprehensive materialist perspective on historical research and the understanding of the historical past.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1766
Category : History
ISBN : BL:A0017681072
Author : Aviezer Tucker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444351521
A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY The philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative. Do we possess knowledge of the past? Do we just have probable beliefs about the past, or is historiography a piece of convincing fiction? The philosophy of history is the direct philosophical examination of history, whether it is necessary or contingent, whether it has a direction or whether it is coincidental, and if it has a direction, what it is, and how and why it is unfolding? The fifty entries in this Companion cover the main issues in the philosophies of historiography and history, including natural history and the practices of historians. Written by an international and multi-disciplinary group of experts, these clearly written entries present a cutting-edge updated picture of current research in the philosophies of historiography and history. This Companion will be of interest to philosophers, historians, natural historians, and social scientists.
Author : Anthony K. Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027329
An exposition of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history in its historical context and of its relevance to contemporary theories.
Author : José Ortega y Gasset
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0252070453
Bears the mark of Ortega's fine intelligence and his abiding faith in the redemptive power of engaged living and original thinking
Author : Bennett Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351216241
Historical study has traditionally been built around the placement of the human at the center of inquiry. The de-stabilized concepts of the human in contemporary thought challenge this configuration. However, the ways in which these challenges provoke new historical perspectives both expand and enrich historical study but are also weak and vulnerable in their concept of the human, lacking or omitting something valuable in our self-understanding. A Personalist Philosophy of History argues for a robust concept of personhood in our experience of the past as a way to resolve this conflict. Focused on those who know history, rather than on the abstract properties of knowledge, it extends the moral agency of persons into non-human, trans-human, and deep history domains. It describes an approach to moral life through historical experience and study, rather than through abstractions. And it describes a kind of historiography that matches factual accuracy to both the constructed nature of understanding and to unavoidable moral purpose.
Author : Daniel Little
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048194100
Insights developed in the past two decades by philosophers of the social sciences can serve to enrich the challenging intellectual tasks of conceptualizing, investigating, and representing the human past. Likewise, intimate engagement with the writings of historians can deepen philosophers’ understanding of the task of knowing the past. This volume brings these perspectives together and considers fundamental questions, such as: What is historical causation? What is a large historical structure? How can we best conceptualize “mentalities” and “identities”? What is involved in understanding the subjectivity of historical actors? What is involved in arriving at an economic history of a large region? How are actions and outcomes related? The arguments touch upon a wide range of historical topics -- the Chinese and French Revolutions, the extension of railroads in the nineteenth century, and the development of agriculture in medieval China.
Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241980866
AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES 'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But there has been no comprehensive history of this great intellectual journey since 1945. Intelligible for students and eye-opening for philosophy readers, A. C. Grayling covers with characteristic clarity and elegance subjects like epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, logic, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the history of debates in these areas, through the ideas of celebrated philosophers as well as less well-known influential thinkers. The History of Philosophy takes the reader on a journey from the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates. Through Christianity's dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment. On to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, then the philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world. And finally, into philosophy today.
Author : Aviezer Tucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139452250
How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? This book presents a philosophical analysis of the disciplines that offer scientific knowledge of the past. Using the analytic tools of contemporary epistemology and philosophy of science the book covers such topics as evidence, theory, methodology, explanation, determination and underdetermination, coincidence, contingency and counterfactuals in historiography. Aviezer Tucker's central claim is that historiography as a scientific discipline should be thought of as an effort to explain the evidence of past events. He also emphasizes the similarity between historiographic methodology to Darwinian evolutionary biology. This is an important, fresh approach to historiography and will be read by philosophers, historians and social scientists interested in the methodological foundations of their disciplines.