Martin L. Davies

Historics (eBook, ePUB)

Why History Dominates Contemporary Society

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A book on history and theory which takes a fresh new look at the whole subject. It takes as its starting point historical ideas and thought about the past - rather than falling into the usual pattern of endlessly debating what history as a discipline does or should do. He doesn't take it for granted that history as a discipline has to exist at all - and looks at the influence and importance of historical ideas across the disciplines more generally. This is quite a complex argument, but the book is written very clearly and takes on real empirical questions as well as theoretical ones.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134506767
• Artikelnr.: 38260824

Autorenporträt

Martin L. Davies

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Getting at What is Behind History: The concept of historics
Part 1: A Sense of History: Variations on a theme from Nietzsche 1. Theme:
A sixth sense - a sense for history 2. Var. 1 History and the senses 3.
Var. 2 History as Apprehension 4. Var. 3 History as Prosthesis 5. Var. 5
Making Sense of History Part 2. The work of History: Living in a
historicized world 6. The Faith of Fallen Jews: Trauma, remembrance and
reptition-compulsion 7. Homo Studiosus: Homo oeconomicus: History as a
vocation 8. History as Product and Representation: The past as a commodity
9. History as Symbolic Form