Meaning and Representation in History / / ed. by Jörn Rüsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ankersmit, Frank R.,; Assmann, Aleida,; Barasch, Moshe,; Carr, David,; Cavalli, Alessandro,; Dux, Günter,; Galtung, Johan,; Hoffmann, Detlef,; Lämmert, Eberhard,; Ricoeur, Paul,; Rüsen, Jörn,; Stückrath, Jörn,; Young, James E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rüsen, Jörn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Making Sense of History ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

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 w...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface to the Series
• Introduction: What does “Making sense of history” mean?
• Part I: Meaning
• Chapter 1: Memory—Forgetting—History
• Chapter 2: How Meaning Came into the World and What Became of It
• Chapter 3: Sense of History: What does it mean?
• Chapter 4: “The Meaning of History” A Modern Construction and Notion?
• Chapter 5: The Meanings of History
• Chapter 6: The Three Levels of “Sinnbildung” in Historical Writing
• Chapter 7: The Reality of History
• Chapter 8: Language and Historical Experience
• Part II: Representation
• Chapter 9: Flights from History
• Chapter 10: Memory and Identity
• Chapter 11: The Material Presence of the Past
• Chapter 12: Ruins: A Visual Expression of Historical Meaning
• Chapter 13: Three Versions of Wallenstein
• Chapter 14: The Arts of Jewish Memory in a Postmodern Age
• Bibliography
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index of Names