Western Historical Thinking : : An Intercultural Debate /

Western Historical Thinking : : An Intercultural Debate / / ed. by Jörn Rüsen.

What is history – a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined in contrast to other forms of historical consc...

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MitwirkendeR:
Al-Azm, Sadik J.,
Al-Azmeh, Aziz,
Ankersmit, Frank R.,
Burke, Peter,
Diawara, Mamadou,
Galtung, Johan,
Hartog, François,
Iggers, Georg G.,
Khalidi, Tarif,
Lee, Thomas H.C.,
Muriuki, Godfrey,
Müller, Klaus E.,
Rüsen, Jörn,
Sato, Masayuki,
Thapar, Romila,
White, Hayden,
Ying-Shih, Yü,
HerausgeberIn:
Rüsen, Jörn,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Making Sense of History ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Series
  • Introduction: Historical Thinking as Intercultural Discourse
  • I: THESES
  • Western Historical Thinking in a Global Perspective – 10 Theses
  • II: COMMENTS
  • 1. General Comments
  • Perspectives in Historical Anthropology
  • Searching for Common Principles: A Plea and Some Remarks on the Islamic Tradition
  • The Coherence of the West
  • 2. The Peculiarity of the West
  • Toward an Archaeology of Historical Thinking
  • Trauma and Suffering: A Forgotten Source of Western Historical Consciousness
  • Western Deep Culture and Western Historical Thinking
  • What is Uniquely Western about the Historiography of the West in Contrast to that of China?
  • The Westernization of World History
  • 3. The Perspective of the Others
  • Western Historical Thinking from an Arabian Perspective
  • Cognitive Historiography and Normative Historiography
  • Western Uniqueness? Some Counterarguments from an African Perspective
  • Historical Programs: A Western Perspective
  • 4. The Difference of the Others
  • Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking
  • Must History Follow Rational Patterns of Interpretation? Critical Questions from a Chinese Perspective
  • Some Reflections on Early Indian Historical Thinking
  • III: AFTERWORD
  • Reply
  • Notes on Contributers
  • Index

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