The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory

ISBN-13: 9780367421083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 620 str.

Chiel Van Den Akker

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).