New York. The Dot Connector Library, 2017. - 589 p. Far out in exterior darkness where no breath stirs, no light shines, and no sound is heard, one can glance toward this spinning earth-ball. In the astral regions, illumination is of the soul, hence all is dark but this certain star and only a part of it is aglow. From such a distance, one can obtain an utterly untrammeled view...
München: Verlag C.H. Beck (Beck'sche Reihe), 2013 (2. Aufl.). — 250 S. "Dieses Buch bietet einen fundierten Überblick über einflußreiche Denker und Strömungen der Philosophie des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts und zeigt anhand konkreter Fallbeispiele die Bedeutung ihrer Theorien für den Alltag des Historikers auf. Sein besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei denjenigen philosophischen...
Curriculum Studies, 2010, VOL. 42, NO. 5, 693–723. In these three countries, nationalism had previously undermined objectivity in teaching history; during the 19th and 20th centuries, politics turned its back on history, so that it was possible to develop a vision of history teaching that did not serve any preconceived political aim but took historical thinking as its point of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 300 p. In this ambitious exploration of humanity and civilizations throughout history, major historical events and processes in the history of mankind are looked at in order to understand the "currents" of history. Jaroslav Krejc analyzes the whole history of civilization and considers historical events such as feudalism and the development of...
University of Chicago Press, 2003. — 348 p. History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no opposition or dissent and shelters us from the experience of time. So argues...
Routledge, 2019. — 270 p. Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or rather teleological? While this is a central question in analytic philosophy of action, it also has implications for questions about the differences between methods of explanation in the sciences on the one hand and in the humanities and the social sciences on the other. Additionally, this...
Routledge, 2019. — 270 p. Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or rather teleological? While this is a central question in analytic philosophy of action, it also has implications for questions about the differences between methods of explanation in the sciences on the one hand and in the humanities and the social sciences on the other. Additionally, this...
Brepols Publishers, 2019. — 254 p. This book investigates how, from the seventeenth century onward, philosophers, philologists and historians described various world "cultures", colonized the past (or national pasts), and thus invented Europe's philosophical nature. In the recent past, critical discussions concerning notions such as "cultural area" and 'area studies', as well...
London: Atlantic Books, 2018. — 493 p. — (Histories of the Unexpected). — ISBN: 978-1-78649-412-2ю In this fascinating and original new book, Sam Willis and James Daybell lead us on a journey of discovery that tackles some of the greatest historical themes - from the Tudors to the Second World War, from the Roman Empire to the Victorians - but via entirely unexpected subjects....
Routledge, 1997. — 336 p. Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how all historians, confined by the concepts and forms of argument of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past. The Truth of History presents a study of various historical explanations and interpretations and...
Routledge, 2009. — 215 p. — (History: concepts, theories and practice). — ISBN: 978-1-4082-2012-2. Is history factual, or just another form of fiction? Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands? How do novelists represent historians and history? The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent,...
Routledge, 2015. — 176 p. Key Issues in Historical Theory is a fresh, clear and well-grounded introduction to this vibrant field of inquiry, incorporating many examples from novels, paintings, music, and political debates. The book expertly engages the reader in discussions of what history is, how people relate to the past and how they are formed by the past. Over 11...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 384 p. In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. Herodotus and the Question Why offers a comprehensive examination of the methods behind the Histories and the challenge of documenting...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 216 p. An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order. The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 216 p. An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order. The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility...
London: Oxford University Press and Thames & Hudson, 1972. — 576 p. — ISBN: 0-500-27539-4. In The Study, Toynbee revolutionized the writing of history. By encompassing virtually all civilizations – the Egyptian, the Sumeric, the Mayan, the Iranian, the Japanese, the Hellenic, and the West, to name only a few – within the scope of his monumental work, he achieved the first...
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2017. — 240 S. In Deutschland genießt die Ideengeschichte ein so hohes Ansehen wie schon seit Langem nicht mehr. Mit der steigenden Popularität wird eine klärende Bestandsaufnahme des eigenen Methodenhaushaltes dringlich – ebenso steht eine Standortbestimmung innerhalb der Geschichtswissenschaft aus. Die Beiträger_innen des Bandes – darunter...