ENGLISH

History: Narration, Interpretation, Orientation

By Jorn Rusen

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2005
ISBN
9781782389675
DOI
10.1515/9781782389675
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
660 kB (676297 bytes)
Series
Making Sense of History; 5
Pages
236\232
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:14:12

Description

Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of aspects, factors and developments of historical thinking from the 18th century to the present, thus continuing, in exemplary fashion, the tradition of critical self-reflection in the humanities and looking at historical studies as an important factor of cultural orientation in practical life.

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