What Is History For? : : Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography / / Arthur Alfaix Assis.
A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice. Arthur Alfaix Assis interprets Droyse...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Making Sense of History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Functions of Historiography until the Mid-nineteenth Century: A Short History of the Problem
- CHAPTER 2 The Theoretical Design of a New Justifi cation
- CHAPTER 3 Historical Thinking and the Genealogy of the Present
- CHAPTER 4 The Politics of Historical Thinking and the Limits of the New Function
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Droysen and His Theory of History
- Bibliography
- Index