The crisis from within : : historians, theory, and the humanities / / by Nigel A. Raab.

• VerfasserIn: Raab, Nigel A., 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In The Crisis from Within , Nigel Raab explores weaknesses that emerge when using interdisciplinary theories in historical analysis. With chapters that focus on knowledge, language, memory, imagining and inventing, and civil society, the analysis reveals how theoretical applications can be the source of interpretive confusion. By drawing from a global range of historical works, Nigel Raab demonstrates how this problem concerns all historical sub-fields. From science in the seventeenth century to communism in the twentieth century, theories often overdetermine analysis in a way the historian never intended. After the enthusiastic reception of theory for over a generation, The Crisis from Within argues that the time has come to pause and think seriously about how we wish to proceed with theory.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Nigel A. Raab -- Introduction / Nigel A. Raab -- 1 Historical Origins of the Interdisciplinary Approach / Nigel A. Raab -- 2 Historians and Their Own Models / Nigel A. Raab -- 3 Knowledge and Its Theoretical Place in a Historical Discussion / Nigel A. Raab -- 4 Discourse as Another Form of Knowledge / Nigel A. Raab -- 5 Memory and History / Nigel A. Raab -- 6 Imagining the Subjective and Inventing the Objective / Nigel A. Raab -- 7 Civil Society and the Historian / Nigel A. Raab -- Conclusion / Nigel A. Raab -- Selected Bibliography / Nigel A. Raab -- Index / Nigel A. Raab.