The historian between the ethnologist and the futurologist : : A Conference on the Historian Between the Ethnologist and the Futurologist, Venice, April 2–8, 1971 / / ed. by Conference on the Historian Between the Ethnologist and the Futurologist ‹1971›, Jerôme [Ed.] Dumoulin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Aron, Raymond,; Bell, Daniel,; Bullock, Alan,; Duby, Georges,; Furet, François,; Gellner, Ernest,; Le Goff, Jacques,; Mommsen, Wolfgang J.,; Nisbet, Robert,; Trevor-Roper, Hugh,; Wiles, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Conference on the Historian Between the Ethnologist and the Futurologist ‹1971›, ,; Dumoulin, Jerôme [Ed.],
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: Reprint 2018
• Language: English
• Series: New Babylon : Studies in the Social Sciences , 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 258 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Editors' note
• Contents
• 1. Rules of the game and landscapes
• Our current sense of history
• Discussion
• 2. Futurology or projection of the present
• Prediction versus prophecy
• Discussion
• 3. The historian and scientific economics
• The necessity and impossibility of political economy
• Discussion
• 4. Illusions of temporal continuity
• History, sociology and revolutions
• Discussion
• 5. Political history in crisis
• On the position of political history within the social sciences
• Discussion
• 6. In praise of history
• What is historical knowledge for us today?
• Discussion
• 7. New historical method
• History and primitive man
• The historian and the common man
• History of systems of values
• Postface
• Participants