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Meaning and representation in history / edited by Jörn Rüsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Making sense of history ; volume 7.
- Making sense of history ; volume 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Collective memory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is memory that links the present to the past and therefore has to be seen as the most fundamental procedure of the human mind that constitutes history: memory and historical thinking are the door of the human mind to experience. At the same time, it t
- Contents:
- part I. Meaning
- part II. Representation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 26, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780857455550
- 0857455559
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