The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Akker, Chiel van den

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to. It is an indispensable companion to the study of history and essential reading for anyone interested in the reflection on the nature of history and our historical existence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000465457
• Artikelnr.: 62636976

Autorenporträt

Chiel van den Akker is Lecturer in Historical Theory at the Department of Art and Culture, History and Antiquities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Modern Idea of History and its Value. An Introduction (2020) and The Exemplifying Past. A Philosophy of History (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Modes and Schools of Historical Thought 1. Historicism 2. Hermeneutics 3. Marxism 4. Idealism: With History in Mind 5. Positivism 6. Phenomenology 7. Critical Theory 8. Narrativism 9. Pragmatism 10. Analytical Philosophy of History 11. Postcolonial Theory: Then and Now 12. Psychoanalysis Part 2: Epistemology and Metaphysics of History 13. Contingency and Historical Inevitability 14. Imagination and Revision 15. Objectivity and Relativism 16. Constructivism and Realism 17. Explanation 18. Interpretation 19. Representation 20. Truth: What is it for? 21. Postmodernism: The "Crisis" of Narratives in the Historical Discipline 22. Ethics: Or Sharing History 23. Deconstruction: History, if there is History 24. Freedom and Agency Part 3: Issues and Challenges in Historical Theory 25. Political Ideologies 26. Didactics 27. Big data 28. New Television and Film 29. Counterfactuals: A Typological Approach 30. Globalisation/s 31. Teleology 32. The Sublime 33. Experience 34. Memory 35. Time 36. Presence 37. The End of History