The Modern Idea Of History And Its Value

Author : Chiel van den Akker
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048552054

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The Modern Idea of History and its Value by Chiel van den Akker Pdf

This is an original and accessible introduction to the modern idea of history and its value, and an indispensable companion to the study of history and its philosophical underpinnings. The book answers two basic questions: What is history? And what is its value? It also shows how the answers to these questions are mutually dependent. The old view that history is the teacher of life, for instance, assumes that the past is a reservoir of examples from which moral lessons for the present can be drawn. The subjects discussed include history as the teacher of life, the need for truth and objectivity, the moral standards of the historian, realism and the value of historical insight, historical explanation and understanding, the intelligibility of the historical process, the tragedy of history, the politics of history-writing, and the close connection between history, narrative, and the desire for justice. These topics are discussed with the help of inspiring and influential historians and philosophers such as Thucydides, Ranke, Hegel, Nietzsche, Collingwood, Arendt, White, Hunt, and Ankersmit.

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 9780192853066

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The Idea of History by Robin George Collingwood Pdf

The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood. It was originally published posthumously in 1946, having been mainly reconstructed from Collingwood's manuscripts, many of which are now lost. This important work examines how the idea of history has evolved from the time of Herodotus to the twentieth century, and offers Collingwood's own view of what history is. For this revised edition, Collingwood's most important lectures on the philosophy of history are published here for the first time. These texts have been prepared by Jan van der Dussen from manuscripts that have only recently become available. The lectures contain Collingwood's first comprehensive statement of his philosophy of history; they are therefore essential for a full understanding of his thought, and in particular for a correct interpretation of The Idea of History itself. Van der Dussen contributes a substantial introduction in which he explains the background to this new edition and surveys the scholarship of the last fifty years.

Author : R. G. Collingwood
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Gerald A. Press
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773563971

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Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity by Gerald A. Press Pdf

An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is understood as circular and repetitive - a consequence of their anti-temporal metaphysics - in contrast with Judaeo-Christian thought, which sees history as linear and unique - a consequence of their messianic and hence radically temporal theology. Gerald Press presents a more general view - that the Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian cultures were fundamentally alien and opposed cultural forces and that, therefore, Christianity's victory over paganism included the replacement or supersession of one intellectual world by another - and then shows that, contrary to this view, there was substantial continuity between "pagan" and Christian ideas of history in antiquity, rather than a striking opposition between cyclic and linear patterns. He finds that the foundation of the Christian view of history as goal-directed lies in the rhetorical rather than the theological motives of early Christian writers.

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Human Nature and Human History by Robin George Collingwood Pdf

Author : Chiel van den Akker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000465501

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The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory by Chiel van den Akker Pdf

This Companion provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to. The book offers both historical and systematic treatments of these issues, as well as addressing their contemporary relevance. Structured in three parts – Modes and Schools of Historical Thought, Epistemology and Metaphysics of History, and Issues and Challenges in Historical Theory – it offers the reader a wide scope and expert treatment of each topic in this vibrant field that can be read in any order. An international team of experts both discuss the basis of their topic and present their own view, offering the reader a cutting-edge contribution while ensuring their chapters are of interest to both students and specialists in the field of historical theory and engaging with the very nature of historical thought, the metaphysics of historical existence, the politics of history-writing, and the intelligibility of the historical process. The volume is an indispensable companion to the study of history and essential reading for anyone interested in the reflection on the nature of history and our historical existence.

Author : Natan Elgabsi,Bennett Gilbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350279100

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Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History by Natan Elgabsi,Bennett Gilbert Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy with a unique focus on time. Taking in a range of intellectual traditions, cultural, and geographical contexts, the volume provides a rich tapestry of approaches to time, morality, culture, and history. By extending the philosophical discussion on the ethical importance of temporality, the editors disentangle some of the disciplinary tensions between analytical and hermeneutic philosophy of history, cultural theory, meta-ethical theory, and normative ethics. The ethical and existential character of temporality reveals itself within a collection that resists the methodological underpinnings of any one philosophical school. The book's distinctive cross-cultural approach ensures a wide range of perspectives with contributions on life and death in Japanese philosophy, ethics and time in Maori philosophy, non-traditional temporalities and philosophical anthropology, as well as global approaches to ethics. These new directions of study highlight the importance of the ethical in the temporal, inviting further points of departure in this burgeoning field.

Author : Gunnar Schumann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000997965

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Historical Explanation by Gunnar Schumann Pdf

This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy insights. In philosophy of action, many philosophers favor causal theories of human action. Additionally, in current philosophy of historiography the majority view is that historians should explain historical phenomena by their causes. This book pushes back against these mainstream views by reviving an anti-causal view of explanation of current and past human actions. The author argues that disciplines that deal with human actions require a certain form of explanation, namely a teleological or intentional explanation. This means that past human actions and their results will have to be explained by reasons of agents, not by causes. Therefore, historiography employs a method of explanation which is in stark contrast to the sciences. The author thus proposes a Verstehen (understanding) approach in historiography and the social sciences. Historical Explanation will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of action, philosophy of history, and philosophy of the social sciences.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465592736

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The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

Author : A. C. Seward
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. Seward Pdf

PREFACE At the suggestion of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the Syndics of the University Press decided in March, 1908, to arrange for the publication of a series of Essays in commemoration of the Centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "The Origin of Species". The preliminary arrangements were made by a committee consisting of the following representatives of the Council of the Philosophical Society and of the Press Syndicate: Dr H.K. Anderson, Prof. Bateson, Mr Francis Darwin, Dr Hobson, Dr Marr, Prof. Sedgwick, Mr David Sharp, Mr Shipley, Prof. Sorley, Prof. Seward. In the course of the preparation of the volume, the original scheme and list of authors have been modified: a few of those invited to contribute essays were, for various reasons, unable to do so, and some alterations have been made in the titles of articles. For the selection of authors and for the choice of subjects, the committee are mainly responsible, but for such share of the work in the preparation of the volume as usually falls to the lot of an editor I accept full responsibility. Authors were asked to address themselves primarily to the educated layman rather than to the expert. It was hoped that the publication of the essays would serve the double purpose of illustrating the far-reaching influence of Darwin's work on the progress of knowledge and the present attitude of original investigators and thinkers towards the views embodied in Darwin's works.

Author : Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira,Valdei Lopes de Araujo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350410749

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'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History by Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira,Valdei Lopes de Araujo Pdf

This book enables us to understand the current transformations in the experience of time that have been taking place in recent decades. Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira and Valdei Lopes de Araujo convincingly argue that we live in a time of 'Updatism', the temporal dimension that emerges in those societies imprisoned by the structures of infinite expansion, and that this Updatism has profound consequences for how we think about the past, the present and the future. Using the theoretical works of Lyotard and Heidegger as its foundation, 'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History analyses our digital modernity and the significance of key themes, such as updating, solitude, democracy, internet, exposure, postmodernism and historicism. It discusses aspects of our present time that reveal substantial differences between the historicist-modern time, usually located in the 19th century, and an emergent 'chronotope' or 'regime of historicity' understood and explained here as Updatism. The book is effective in mapping the ubiquity of Updatism and the anxiety-inducing insistence of being constantly updated, as well as exploring some searching questions: If our reality is constantly being updated, and its previous versions are deleted or inaccessible, what does this mean for memory and our understanding of history? And what does this tell us about the world we live in today and the one we may update to in the future?

Author : Peter Seixas,Tom Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 0176541543

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The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts by Peter Seixas,Tom Morton Pdf

Authors Peter Seixas and Tom Morton provide a guide to bring powerful understandings of these six historical thinking concepts into the classroom through teaching strategies and model activities. Table of Contents Historical Significance Evidence Continuity and Change Cause and Consequence Historical Perspectives The Ethical Dimension The accompanying DVD-ROM includes: Modifiable Blackline Masters All graphics, photographs, and illustrations from the text Additional teaching support Order Information: All International Based Customers (School, University and Consumer): All US based customers please contact [email protected] All International customers (exception US and Asia) please contact Nelson.international@ne lson.com

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102790409

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Missouri School Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1785335383

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Evidence and Meaning by Jörn Rüsen Pdf

As one of the premier historical thinkers of his generation, Jörn Rüsen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history as it is practiced today. In Evidence and Meaning, Rüsen surveys the seismic changes that have shaped the historical profession over the last half-century, while offering a clear, economical account of his theory of history. To traditional historiography Rüsen brings theoretical insights from philosophy, narrative theory, cultural studies, and the social sciences, developing an intricate but robust model of “historical thinking” as both a cognitive discipline and a cultural practice—one that is susceptible neither to naïve empiricism nor radical relativism.

Author : Antonio Cerella,Louiza Odysseos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786602329

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Heidegger and the Global Age by Antonio Cerella,Louiza Odysseos Pdf

Offering the first full assessment of Heidegger’s philosophy in the fields of International Studies and International Political Theory, this important volume provides a fresh intervention into the debate on globalization from a critical theory perspective.