History : narration, interpretation, orientation / Jörn Rüsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rüsen, Jörn, author.

Series:

Making sense of history ; v. 5.

New approaches to cultural history ; 2.

New approaches to cultural history ; 2

Making sense of history ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of aspects, factors and developments of historical thinking from the 18th century to the present, thus continuing, in exemplary fashion, the tradition of critical self-reflection in the humanities and looking at historical studies as an important factor of cultural orientation in practical life.

Contents:

History; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I: NARRATION; Chapter 1. Historical Narration; Chapter 2. Narrative Competence; Chapter 3. Rhetoric and Aesthetics of History; Chapter 4. Narrativity and Objectivity in Historical Studies; II: INTERPRETATION; Chapter 5. What is Historical Theory?; Chapter 6. New History; Chapter 7. Theoretical Approaches to an Intercultural Comparison of Historiography; Chapter 8. Loosening the Order of History; III: ORIENTATION; Chapter 9. Historical Thinking as Trauerarbeit; Chapter 10. Historizing Nazi-Time; Chapter 11. Holocaust-Memory and German Identity

BibliographyIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781571816245

1571816240

9781782389675

1782389679

OCLC:

1272091638