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The philosophy of history in our time : an anthology / selected, and with an Introduction and commentary by Hans Meyerhoff.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Doubleday anchor books ; A164.
- Doubleday anchor books ; A164
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 350 pages. ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959.
- Contents:
- Introduction: History and Philosophy.
- I. The Heritage of Historicism. The Historian in a Changing World / Geoffrey Barraclough. The Dream / Wilhelm Dilthey. History and Chronicle / Benedetto Croce. History as a System / José Ortega y Gasset. The Historical Imagination / R. G. Collingwood
- II. Clio-Science or Muse? Whare are historians trying to do? / Henri Pirenne. (a) The Unit of Historical Study (b) History, Science and Fiction / Arnold J. Toynbee. What are historical facts? / Carl L. Becker. Written history as an Act of Faith / Charles A. Beard. Relativism in history / Raymond Aron. Historical judgements / John Dewey. Present standpoints and past history / ArthurO. Lovejoy. Can history be objective? / Morton White. The logic of historical analysis / Ernest Nagel. Can history be objective / W. H. Walsh
- III. History and Morality. Moral judgements in history / Herbert Butterfield. Historical inevitability / Sir Isaiah Berlin. On fortune and misfortune in history / Jacob Burckhardt
- IV. The Meaning of History. The historian's purpose: history and metahistory / Alan Bullock. Has history any meaning? / Karl Popper. The diversity and unity of history / Reinhold Niebuhr. The unity of history / Karl Jaspers.
- Notes:
- "The Anchor Books edition is the first publication of 'The Philosophy of History in Our Time'."
- "Anchor Books edition: 1959."
- "A Doubleday Anchor Original."
- Includes bibliographical postscript: pages 346-350.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Adams copy has autograph of Mark Adams.
- OCLC:
- 408394
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