Martin L Davies

How History Works

The Reconstitution of a Human Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history's academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing that it is an existential liability: if critical analysis reveals the sense that history offers to the world to be illusory, what stops historical scholarship from becoming a disguise for pessimism or nihilism? It is valuable reading for anyone interested in historiography and historical theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138932128
• ISBN-10: 1138932124
• Artikelnr.: 43035749

Autorenporträt

Martin L. Davies is Emeritus Reader in History at the University of Leicester. His publications include Identity or History? Marcus Herz and the End of the Enlightenment (1995), Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society (Routledge, 2006) and Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life (Routledge, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction. 1. The Situation of Historical Knowledge: The
Historicized World 2. The Technology of Historical Knowledge:
Management-Systems 3. The Logic of Historical Knowledge: Causality,
Rationality, Identity 4. The Organization of Historical Knowledge:
Categorical Coordinators; Rhetorical Strategy 5. The Purpose of Historical
Knowledge: Comprehension Conclusion: The Psychopathology of Historicized
Life. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.