Martin Jay

Genesis and Validity

The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"There is no more contentious and perennial issue in modern thought than the vexed relationship between an idea's genesis and its claim to transcendent validity. It is at the heart of the discipline known as intellectual history, which deals with ideas and the intellectuals who generate, disseminate, and criticize them. These essays by an internationally recognized figure in the field address the issue in new and arresting ways"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 236mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253405
• ISBN-10: 081225340X
• Artikelnr.: 61117914

Autorenporträt

Martin Jay

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as
Judgment of
the Past
Chapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits
of Contextualization
Chapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White
and Quentin Skinner
Chapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual
Life in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and Arendt
Chapter 6. "Hey! What's the Big Idea?": Ruminations on the Question of
Scale in Intellectual History
Chapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? Lukács's History and Class Consciousness
and the Russian Revolution
Chapter 8. Can Photographs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial Anxiety
Chapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and Photography
Chapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization:
Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel
Chapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians
Chapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field?
Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free Speech
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments