UID:
edocfu_9959227607602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (305 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-50677-5
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1-281-15768-6
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9786611157685
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0-203-96421-7
Inhalt:
From an author at the forefront of research in this area comes this provocative and seminal work that presents a unique and fresh new look at history and theory.Taking a broadly European view, the book draws on works of French and German philosophy, some of which are unknown to the English-speaking world, and Martin L. Davies spells out what it is like to live in a historicized world, where any event is presented as historical as, or even before, it happens.Challenging basic assumptions made by historians, Davies focuses on historical ideas and thought about the past instead o
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Getting at what is behind history --
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The already historicized world --
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The concept of historics --
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Historical illusions --
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The logic of "sense" --
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A sense of history --
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Theme --
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History and indiscriminate interests --
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The cultural politics of distinction --
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Historics --
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History and sentience --
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The organic conception of history --
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'The common denominator of all our sensibilities' --
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'The anguish secreted by human infirmity' --
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Comprehension and history --
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Apprehension and history --
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Historical knowledge --
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The 'prosthesis god' --
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Neither art nor science --
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Historical discourse --
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Phantom experiences --
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History as a sense-management system --
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The faith of fallen Jews --
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Homo studiosus --
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History as symbolic re-enactment --
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Coda.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-26166-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-26165-1
Sprache:
Englisch
