Meaning in History
Meaning in History

Author: Karl Löwith

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 022616229X

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Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint—from a deep faith in the Kingdom of God or a belief in recurrent and eternal life-cycles. The modern mind, however, is neither Christian nor pagan—and its interpretations of history are Christian in derivation and anti-Christian in result. To develop this theory, Karl Löwith—beginning with the more accessible philosophies of history in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries and working back to the Bible—analyzes the writings of outstanding historians both in antiquity and in Christian times. "A book of distinction and great importance. . . . The author is a master of philosophical interpretation, and each of his terse and substantial chapters has the balance of a work of art."—Helmut Kuhn, Journal of Philosophy

History and Its Interpretations
History and Its Interpretations

Author: Sophie Jeleff

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9789287132253

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This book underlines what is a stake in the learning of history in Europe. History plays a key political function in Europe today, allowing as it can for better understanding, tolerance & trust between individuals & nations of Europe. The book contains contributions from personalities from the world of academe & the media. Introduction by Marc Ferro.

Whig Interpretation of History
Whig Interpretation of History

Author: Herbert Butterfield

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780393003185

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Five essays on the tendency of modern historians to update other eras and on the need to recapture the concrete life of the past.

Why Study History?
Why Study History?

Author: Marcus Collins

Publisher: London Publishing Partnership

Published: 2020-05-27

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1913019055

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Considering studying history at university? Wondering whether a history degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know. Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That’s where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book sets out to enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.

The Meaning of History
The Meaning of History

Author: Nikolaĭ Berdi︠a︡ev

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published:

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1412828295

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Berdyaev considered the philosophy of history as a field that laid the foundations of the Russian national consciousness. Its disputes were centered on distinctions between slavophiles and Westerners, East and West. The Meaning of History was an early effort, following World War I, that attempted to revive this perspective. With the removal of Communism as a ruling system in Russia, that nation returned to an elaboration of a religious philosophy of history as the specific mission of Russian thought. This volume thus has contemporary significance. Its sense of the apocalypse, which distinguishes Russian from Western thought, gives the book its specifically religious character.

Interpreting National History
Interpreting National History

Author: Terrie Epstein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-04-02

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1135901139

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Interpreting National History examines the differences in black and white students' interpretations of U.S. history in classroom and community settings, illuminating how racial identities work with and against teachers’ pedagogies to shape students’ understandings of history and contemporary society.

Meaning and Representation in History
Meaning and Representation in History

Author: Jörn Rüsen

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0857455559

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History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is memory that links the present to the past and therefore has to be seen as the most fundamental procedure of the human mind that constitutes history: memory and historical thinking are the door of the human mind to experience. At the same time, it transforms the past into a meaningful and sense bearing part of the present and beyond. It is these complex interrelationships that are the focus of the contributors to this volume, among them such distinguished scholars as Paul Ricoeur, Johan Galtung, Eberhard Lämmert, and James E. Young. Full of profound insights into human society pat and present it is a book that not only historians but also philosophers and social scientists should engage with.