History : : Narration, Interpretation, Orientation /

History : : Narration, Interpretation, Orientation / / Jörn Rüsen.

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Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of a...

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Rüsen, Jörn,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Making Sense of History ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction: How to Understand Historical Thinking
  • I: NARRATION
  • Chapter 1 Historical Narration: Foundation,Types, Reason
  • Chapter 2 Narrative Competence: The Ontogeny of Historical and Moral Consciousness
  • Chapter 3 Rhetoric and Aesthetics of History: Leopold von Ranke
  • Chapter 4 Narrativity and Objectivity in Historical Studies
  • II: INTERPRETATION
  • Chapter 5 What is Historical Theory?
  • Chapter 6 New History: Paradigms of Interpretation
  • Chapter 7 Theoretical Approaches to an Intercultural Comparison of Historiography Chapter 8 Loosening the Order of History: Modernity, Postmodernity, Memory
  • Chapter 8 Loosening the Order of History: Modernity, Postmodernity, Memory
  • III: ORIENTATION
  • Chapter 9 Historical Thinking as Trauerarbeit: Burckhardt’s Answer to a Question of our Time
  • Chapter 10 Historizing Nazi-Time: Metahistorical Reflections on the Debate Between Friedländer and Broszat
  • Chapter 11 Holocaust-Memory and German Identity
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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