Screen LibraryWestern historical thinking : an intercultural debate /
"What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can be defined in contrast to other forms of historica...
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Berghahn Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2002. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English German |
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Making sense of history
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"What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can be defined in contrast to other forms of historical consciousness? In this volume, Peter Burke, a prominent "Western" historian, offers ten hypotheses that attempt to constitute specifically "Western Historical Thinking." Scholars from Asia and Africa comment on his position in the light of their own ideas of the sense and meaning of historical thinking. The volume is rounded off by Peter Burke's comments on the questions and issues raised by the authors and his suggestions for the way forward towards a common ground for intercultural communication."--Jacket. |
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Chiefly written by members of the Forschungsgruppe Historische Sinnbildung, Universitat Bielefeld. Based in part on Westliches Geschichtsdenken (1999). |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 206 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
1571817816 9781571817815 157181454X 9781571814548 |
| Index Number: | D16 |
| CLC: | K01 |
| Call Number: | LVC-001674 |
| Contents: | Introduction : historical thinking as intercultural discourse / Jorn Rusen -- Western historical thinking in a global perspective -- 10 theses / Peter Burke -- Perspectives in historical anthropology / Klaus E. Muller -- Searching for common principles : a plea and some remarks on the Islamic tradition / Tarif Khalidi -- The coherence of the West / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Toward an archaeology of historical thinking / Francois Hartog -- Trauma and suffering : a forgotten source of western historical consciousness / Frank R. Ankersmit -- Western deep culture and western historical thinking / Johan G |