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Book SynopsisTo what extent do we and can we understand othersother peoples, species, times, and places? What is the role of others within ourselves, epitomized in the notion of unconscious forces? Can we come to terms with our internalized others in ways that foster mutual understanding and counteract the tendency to scapegoat, project, victimize, and indulge in prejudicial and narcissistic impulses? How do various fields or disciplines address or avoid such questions? And have these questions become particularly pressing and not in the least confined to other peoples, times, and places? Making selective and critical use of the thought of such important figures as Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, and Mikhail Bakhtin, in Understanding Others Dominick LaCapra investigates a series of crucial topics from the current state of deconstruction, trauma studies, and the humanities to newer fields such as animal studies and posthumanist scholarship. LaCapra adroitly brings critical historicaTrade ReviewOne idea that has permeated Dominick LaCapra's work from the beginning is that historical texts pose questions to their readers. They call assumptions into question, render the familiar strange, and challenge contemporary habits of thought... LaCapra's latest volume [is] a stimulating model of how to engage carefully with texts that call into question some of the dominant modes of selfhood in our time. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *In this defiantly political book, Dominick LaCapra pairs Freud with Derrida to expose the psychological and historical processes underpinning the persecution of human and non-human others... LaCapra's great skill is in revivifying the methods of psychoanalysis and deconstruction, not as tools for the couch or the academy, but, in enabling 'a dialogical relation to the past,' as tools with which to build a post-human future. * FRENCH STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. History, Deconstruction, and Working through the Past 2. Humans, Other Animals, and the Humanities 3. Trauma, History, Memory, Identity: What Remains? 4. Frank Hamilton Cushing and His "Adventures" at Zuni 5. What is History? What is Literature? 6. What Use Are the Humanities? Index

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Book SynopsisWhen we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian regimes and terrible atrocities like the Holocaust – “the age of extremes,” to use Hobsbawm’s famous phrase. But in this new book, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the 20th century if we focus on events and ideologies. Rather, in his view, the predominant motif of the 20th century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now. Drawing on his Spheres trilogy, Sloterdijk interprets the actualization of the real in the 20th century as a passion for economic and technological “antigravitation”. The rise of consumerism and the easing of the burdens of human life by the constant deployment of new technologies have killed off the kind of radicalism that was rooted in the belief that power would rise from a material base of production. If the 20th century can still inspire us today, it is because the fundamental shift that it brought about opened the way for a critique of extremist reason, a post-Marxist theory of enrichment and a general economy of energy resources based on excess and dissipation. While developing his highly original interpretation of the 20th century, Sloterdijk also addresses a series of related topics including the meaning of the Anthropocene, the domestication of humans and the significance of the sea. The volume also includes major new pieces on Derrida and on Heidegger’s politics. This work, by one of the most original thinkers today will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as anyone interested in philosophy and critical theory.Table of Contents The Anthropocene - A Stage in the Process on the Margins of the Earth's History? From the Domestication of the Human Being to the Civilizing of Cultures: Answering the Question of Whether Humanity is Capable of Taming Itself The Ocean Experiment: From Nautical Globalization to a General Ecology The Synchronized World: Philosophical Aspects of Globalization What Happened in the 20th Century? Toward a Critique of Extremist Reason The Thinker in the Haunted Castle: On Derrida's Interpretation of Dreams Deep Observation: Towards a Philosophy of the Space Station The Permanent Renaissance: The Italian Novella and News of Modernity Heidegger's Politics: Postponing the End of History Odysseus the Sophist: On the Birth of Philosophy from the Spirit of Travel Stress Almost Sacred Text: Essay on the Constitution The Other Logos, or the Reason of Cunning: On the Intellectual History of the Indirect Editorial Note Notes

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Book SynopsisThe Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy.

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Book SynopsisThe Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy.

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Book SynopsisApproaching Haiti’s history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti’s complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean, contributors provide pedagogical guidance on how to approach the country from different lenses in course curricula. They offer practical suggestions, theories on a wide variety of texts, examples of syllabi, and classroom experiences.Teaching Haiti dispels stereotypes associating Haiti with disaster, poverty, and negative ideas of Vodou, going beyond the simplistic neocolonial, imperialist, and racist descriptions often found in literary and historical accounts. Instructors in diverse subject areas discuss ways of reshaping old narratives through women’s and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture, and they advocate for including Haiti in American and Latin American studies courses.Portraying Haiti not as “the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere” but as a nation with a multifaceted culture that plays an important part on the world’s stage, this volume offers valuable lessons about Haiti’s past and present related to immigration, migration, locality, and globality. The essays remind us that these themes are increasingly relevant in an era in which teachers are often called to address neoliberalist views and practices and isolationist politics.Contributors:Cécile Accilien Jessica Adams Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Anne M. François Régine Michelle Jean-Charles Elizabeth Langley Valérie K. Orlando Agnès Peysson-Zeiss John D. Ribó Joubert Satyre Darren Staloff Bonnie Thomas Don E. Walicek Sophie WattTrade ReviewA timely effort to overcome stereotypes and decolonize knowledge. . . . This unparalleled contribution inserts seldom-heard Haitian voices and a much-needed postcolonial perspective into scholarly and personal narratives of Haiti. . . . Essential." —ChoiceTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Ayiti se tè glise: Intersectionalities of History, Politics, and Culture Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando I. Teaching About Haitian Art, Literature, and Language 1. Getting Around the Poto Mitan: Reconstructing Haitian Womanhood in the Classroom Régine Jean-Charles 2. Teaching Haiti Through the Work of Rodney Saint-Eloi, écrivain engage Bonnie Thomas 3. Teaching Haitian Theater: Franck Fouché's Bouqui au paradis Joubert Satyre 4. Engaging Haiti Through Art and Religion Cécile Accilien 5. Creating Interdisciplinary Knowledge About Haiti's Creole Language Don E. Walicek II. Teaching About Haitian History and Politics 6. Haiti in the Presidencies of John Adams and John Quincy Adams: Lesson Plans and Course Modules Darren Staloff and Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken 7. Teaching the 2004 Coup in Haiti from a French Perspective: Insights into Global Neo-Imperial Culture and Practices Sophie Watt 8. Peck's Fatal Assistance: A Filmic Lesson on the Failures of Aid Agnès Peysson-Zeiss III. Teaching About Haiti in American Studies, Latin American Studies, and General Studies Contexts 9. Rendering Haiti Visible in an Introductory American Studies Course Elizabeth Langley 10. Race and Culture on the Thrift Store Shift: Teaching About Haiti Inside and Outside the Academy Jessica Adams 11. Rethinking Latinx Studies from Hispaniola's Borderlands John Ribó 12. Teaching Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Cultural Representations of Haitian Immigrant Experiences Anne M. François Index Contributors

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Book SynopsisVeblen was an original thinker, responsible for introducing and popularising a host of important concepts and insights. He ignited controversy not only in economics, but also in sociology, history and political science. The number and quality of the responses to his work provide evidence of the novelty and explanatory power of his ideas. These comprehensive volumes will enable the reader to sample the broad spectrum of Veblen's thought and that of his critics and interpreters. They include critical appraisals of the corpus of his published work as well as reinterpretations of his life and influence on the social sciences particularly economics, political science and sociology.This authoritative collection includes reprints of materials previously published by leading scholars on nearly every aspect of Veblen's life and work. It will be invaluable to professional scholars and graduate students who wish to heighten their understanding of the alternatives to formalism in the social studies.Trade Review'The thoughtful anthology on studies of Veblen is most timely in an era when profits no longer have much to do with productivity and conspicuous consumption is more conspicuous than ever. America's greatest social scientist dealt with emotions that continue to plague us - competitive rivalry, desire, envy, emulation.' -- - John Patrick Diggins, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Rick Tilman PART I ORIGINS AND BASIS OF VEBLEN’S THOUGHT 1. William M. Dugger (1979), ‘The Origins of Thorstein Veblen’s Thought’ 2. Anne Mayhew (1987), ‘The Beginnings of Institutionalism’ 3. Philip Mirowski (1987), ‘The Philosophical Bases of Institutionalist Economics’ 4. Stephen Edgell and Rick Tilman (1989), ‘The Intellectual Antecedents of Thorstein Veblen: A Reappraisal’ PART II HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE 5. Stephen Edgell (1975), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Evolutionary Change’ 6. Malcolm Rutherford (1984), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Processes of Institutional Change’ 7. Paul D. Bush (1987), ‘The Theory of Institutional Change’ 8. Ann Jennings and William Waller (1994), ‘Evolutionary Economics and Cultural Hermeneutics: Veblen, Cultural Relativism, and Blind Drift’ 9. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1998), ‘On the Evolution of Thorstein Veblen’s Evolutionary Economics’ 10. Clare Virginia Eby (1998), ‘Veblen’s Assault on Time’ PART III THEORY OF HUMAN NATURE 11. Melville J. Herskovits (1936), ‘The Significance of Thorstein Veblen for Anthropology’ 12. Thomas C. Mayberry (1969), ‘Thorstein Veblen on Human Nature’ 13. John P. Diggins (1977), ‘Animism and the Origins of Alienation: The Anthropological Perspective of Thorstein Veblen’ 14. William T. Waller, Jr. (1988), ‘The Concept of Habit in Economic Analysis’ 15. Stephen Edgell and Jules Townshend (1993), ‘Marx and Veblen on Human Nature, History, and Capitalism: Vive la Différence!’ PART IV CONSUMPTION 16. H. Leibenstein (1950), ‘Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers’ Demand’ 17. Robert L. Steiner and Joseph Weiss (1951), ‘Veblen Revised in the Light of Counter-Snobbery’ 18. David B. Hamilton (1987), ‘Institutional Economics and Consumption’ 19. Stephen Edgell (1992), ‘Veblen and Post-Veblen Studies of Conspicuous Consumption: Social Stratification and Fashion’ 20. Roger Mason (1995), ‘Interpersonal Effects on Consumer Demand in Economic Theory and Marketing Thought, 1890–1950’ 21. Colin Campbell (1995), ‘Conspicuous Confusion? A Critique of Veblen’s Theory of Conspicuous Consumption’ 22. Rick Tilman (1999), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Disinterest of Neoclassical Economists in Wasteful Consumption’ PART V CRITIC OF CLASSICAL AND NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS 23. A.W. Coats (1954), ‘The Influence of Veblen’s Methodology’ 24. Marc R. Tool (1977), ‘A Social Value Theory in Neoinstitutional Economics’ 25. Syamal K. Ghosh (1984), ‘On the Validity of Veblen’s Criticisms of Economic Orthodoxy: An Analysis of His Positions in the Light of Current Conditions and Economic Thought’ 26. Sasan Fayazmanesh (1998), ‘On Veblen’s Coining of the Term "Neoclassical"’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I VEBLEN’S ECONOMIC SYSTEM 1. Karl L. Anderson (1933), ‘The Unity of Veblen’s Theoretical System’ 2. J.A. Hobson (1937), ‘The Economics of Thorstein Veblen’ 3. Paul M. Sweezy (1957), ‘The Theory of Business Enterprise and Absentee Ownership’ 4. Kenneth J. Arrow (1975), ‘Thorstein Veblen as an Economic Theorist’ 5. Donald A. Walker (1977), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Economic System’ 6. James M. Cypher (1998), ‘Financial Dominance in the US Economy: The Increased Relevance of Veblen’s Analysis in a Post-Keynesian Structure’ PART II ON SOCIALISM AND RADICAL ECONOMICS 7. Joseph E. Pluta and Charles G. Leathers (1978), ‘Veblen and Modern Radical Economics’ 8. E.K. Hunt (1979), ‘The Importance of Thorstein Veblen for Contemporary Marxism’ 9. James Ronald Stanfield (1989), ‘Veblenian and Neo-Marxian Perspectives On the Cultural Crisis of Late Capitalism’ 10. William M. Dugger and William Waller (1996), ‘Radical Institutionalism: From Technological to Democratic Instrumentalism’ PART III VEBLEN AS SOCIOLOGIST AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER 11. Arthur K. Davis (1945), ‘Sociological Elements in Veblen’s Economic Theory’ 12. Abram L. Harris (1953), ‘Veblen as Social Philosopher – A Reappraisal’ 13. David Riesman (1953), ‘The Social and Psychological Setting of Veblen’s Economic Theory’ PART IV SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE 14. Walter P. Metzger (1949), ‘Ideology and the Intellectual: A Study of Thorstein Veblen’ 15. Frank J. Weed (1972), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Sociology of Knowledge’ 16. Warren J. Samuels (1990), ‘The Self-Referentiability of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Preconceptions of Economic Science’ 17. Rick Tilman (1999), ‘The Frankfurt School and the Problem of Social Rationality in Thorstein Veblen’ PART V FEMINISM 18. Edythe S. Miller (1972), ‘Veblen and Women’s Lib: A Parallel’ 19. Jeffrey Waddoups and Rick Tilman (1992), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Feminism of Institutional Economists’ 20. Clare Virginia Eby (1992), ‘Veblen’s Anti-Anti-Feminism’ 21. Ann Jennings (1998), ‘Veblen’s Feminism in Historical Perspective’ 22. Nils Gilman (1999), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Neglected Feminism’ PART VI SATIRIST, STYLIST AND GRAMMARIAN 23. John Cummings (1899), ‘The Theory of the Leisure Class’ 24. Joseph Dorfman (1932), ‘The "Satire" of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class’ 25. Teresa Toulouse (1985), ‘Veblen and His Reader: Rhetoric and Intention in The Theory of the Leisure Class’ 26. Paul D. Bush (1999), ‘Veblen’s "Olympian Detachment" Reconsidered’ 27. Gary Alan Fine (1994), ‘The Social Construction of Style: Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class as Contested Text’ PART VII ON THE HIGHER LEARNING IN AMERICA 28. Charles A. Beard (1918), ‘The Hire Learning in America’ 29. Harold J. Laski (1919), ‘The Higher Learning in America’ 30. Thomas Sowell (1969), ‘Veblen’s Higher Learning After Fifty Years’ 31. Arthur J. Vidich (1994), ‘The Higher Learning in America in Veblen’s Time and Our Own’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I HIS IDEAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. H.J. Hodder (1956), ‘The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen’ 2. Rick Tilman (1972), ‘Veblen’s Ideal Political Economy and Its Critics’ 3. Donald R. Stabile (1988), ‘Veblen’s Analysis of Social Movements: Bellamyites, Workers, and Engineers’ 4. Charles G. Leathers (1989), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Theories of Governmental Failure: The Critic of Capitalism and Democracy Neglected Some Useful Insights, Hindsight Shows’ 5. Malcolm Rutherford (1992), ‘Thorstein Veblen and the Problem of the Engineers’ PART II THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 6. Niles M. Hansen (1964), ‘Weber and Veblen on Economic Development’ 7. Clarence E. Ayres (1960), ‘Institutionalism and Economic Development’ 8. Geoffrey Hodgson (1996), ‘An Evolutionary Theory of Long-Term Economic Growth’ PART III GERMANY AND JAPAN: IMPERIALISM, WAR AND PEACE 9. Graham Wallas (1915), ‘Veblen’s Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution’ 10. George H. Mead (1918), ‘The Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation. By Thorstein Veblen’ 11. Henry A. Wallace (1940), ‘Veblen’s "Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution"’ 12. William Appleman Williams (1957), ‘The Nature of Peace’ 13. Derk Visser (1969), ‘The German Captain of Enterprise: Veblen’s Imperial Germany Revisited’ 14. Jeff E. Biddle and Warren J. Samuels (1991), ‘Thorstein Veblen on War, Peace, and National Security’ PART IV THE BUSINESS/INDUSTRY DICHOTOMY 15. J.A. Banks (1959), ‘Veblen and Industrial Sociology’ 16. William T. Waller, Jr. (1982), ‘The Evolution of the Veblenian Dichotomy: Veblen, Hamilton, Ayres, and Foster’ 17. Phillip Anthony O’Hara (1993), ‘Veblen’s Analysis of Business, Industry and the Limits of Capital: An Interpretation and Sympathetic Critique’ 18. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1998), ‘Dichotomizing the Dichotomy: Veblen versus Ayres’ PART V EGALITARIAN THEORIST OF COLLECTIVE WEALTH 19. Ken McCormick (1989), ‘Veblen on the Nature of Capital’ 20. Phillip Anthony O’Hara (1999), ‘Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Collective Social Wealth, Instincts and Property Relations’ PART VI ECOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHICS 21. Joseph J. Spengler (1972), ‘Veblen on Population and Resources’ 22. Wilbur R. Jacobs (1978), ‘The Great Despoliation: Environmental Themes in American Frontier History’ 23. Ron D. White (1978), ‘Growth versus Conservation: A Veblenian Perspective’ PART VII VEBLEN’S LIFE AND WORK RECONSIDERED 24. Florence Veblen (1931), ‘Thorstein Veblen: Reminiscences of His Brother Orson’ 25. Stephen Edgell (1996), ‘Rescuing Veblen From Valhalla: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a Sociological Legend’ 26. Russell H. Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley (2000), ‘Stigmatizing Thorstein Veblen: A Study in the Confection of Academic Reputations’ PART VIII VEBLEN’S INTELLECTUAL LEGACY 27. Solidelle Fortier Wasser (1994), ‘Veblen’s "Post-Modernist" Economics’ 28. C. Wright Mills (1953), ‘Introduction to the Mentor Edition’ 29. C.E. Ayres (1963), ‘The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisNathan Schur has put together the most compact and complete history of mankind ever written in one volume. With sublime skill and a superbly accessible writing style he illuminates the turning points in World History from Early Man to the Collapse of the Soviet Empire. Refreshing, fascinating and informative, this book is an essential read for the enquiring student or adult. World History is both fascinating and important. There is no other way to understand who we are and how we came to be where we are now.Table of ContentsPart 1 Beginnings: Mother Earth; early man; the agricultural and urban revolution. Part 2 The ancient Middle East: Sumer and Akkad; early Egypt; Syrian, Canaan, and alphabetical writing. Part 3 The diffusion of civilization: the Indus civilization and the coming of the Aryans; Minoans and Mycenaeans; beginnings in China. Part 4 Early empires: the Hittites; Egypt - the new kingdom; the Assyrian Empire; the Persian Empire. Part 5 The age of new beliefs and thought - the First millennium BC: Zoroastrianism; the 'Hundred Schools of Thoughts' in China; Buddhism; Israel; classical Greece. Part 6 Hellenism and Rome: Alexander the Great; the Hellenistic civilization; Rome; Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity. Part 7 Asian empires of the First Millennium AD: the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties of China; pre-Islamic India; Parthians and Sassanians in Iran. Part 8 The early middle ages: Byzantium; the dark ages in Europe; the rise of Islam; the beginning of western civilization; the Crusades. Part 9 Beginnings in America and Africa: the early civilizations of Mexico; the Maya; the early civilization of Peru; beginnings in sub-Saharan Africa. Part 10 Civilizations link-up: the sea peoples; the Phoenicians and their voyages of exploration; the Graeco-Roman reach into central Asia; the Vikings; the Mongols; expansion of Islam into India and Indonesia; the European age discovery. Part 11 The later empires of Asia: from the Ming dynasty to Mao Zedong; Japan; the Moghul Empire in India; the Safawid Empire in Persia; the Ottoman Empire. Part 12 The great age of European civilization: the early national states; the Renaissance; Reformation and Counter Reformation; the European powers in the 17th and 18th centuries; the scientific revolution; the industrial revolution. Part 13 European imperialism: the Portuguese Empire; the Spanish Empire; the Netherlands and their empire; the French Empire; the British Empire - the largest of them all; the Russian Empire. Part 14 The great revolutions: the English Revolution; the Enlightment; the American Revolution; the French Revolution; Napoleon; the liberation of Latin America; classicism and romanticism; the revolutions of 1830-1848; the creation of national states - Italy and Germany; realism, impressionism, socialism; the American dream; the Russian Revolution. Part 15 The break-up of empires: the road to self-destruction; WWI; the years between the wars; WWII; the collapse o European colonialism; the Cold War; the western powers since WWI; the advent of women power; the revival of Islamic fundamentalism and fanaticism; the rise of the states of the Pacific Rim; the collapse of the Soviet Empire.

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Book SynopsisThe second volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima and the coastal region of the Middle Coast from Tel Aviv in the south to Haifa in the north from the time of Alexander to the Muslim conquest. The approx. 1,050 texts comprise all the languages used for inscriptions during this period (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Syrian, and Persian) and are arranged according to the principal settlements and their territory. The great majority of the texts belongs to Caesarea, the capital of the province of Judaea/Syria Palaestina. No other place in Judaea has produced more Latin inscriptions than this area, reflecting the strong Roman influence on the city.

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Book SynopsisA central motif of R. G. Collingwood''s philosophy of history is the idea that historical understanding requires a re-enactment of past experience. However, there have been sharp disagreements about the acceptability of this idea, and even its meaning. This book aims to advance the critical discussion in three ways: by analysing the idea itself further, concentrating especially on the contrast which Collingwood drew between it and scientific understanding; by exploring the limits of its applicability to what historians ordinarily consider their proper subject-matter; and by clarifying the relationship between it and some other key Collingwoodian ideas, such as the place of imagination in historical inquiry, the sense in which history deals with the individual, the essential perspectivity of historical judgement, and the importance of narrative and periodization in historical thinking. Professor Dray defends Collingwood against a good deal of recent criticism, while pointing to ways in Trade ReviewDray is a very careful writer, and his analysis of Collingwood's philosophy of history is unparalleled in its scope and in its balance. Dray is also a very clear writer, and the book is well organized ... this is a fine study, perhaps the single best account of the pertinent ideas of this century's most eminent philosopher of history. * Rex Martin, American Historical Review *It is something of an event then, to have his new work, the culmination of a lifetime of thought, appear in his retirement. As one would expect, it is a deeply considered book, lucidly written, and scrupulously fair to all parties. ... a sound and serious philosophical commentary, and anyone interested in either Collingwood or the philosophy of history should consider joining the dialogue and will learn much in the process. * Canadian Journal of History, April 1997 *Table of Contents1. History and Philosophy ; 2. Re-enactment and Understanding ; 3. Re-enactment and Laws ; 4. Intellect, Rationality, Feeling ; 5. The Physical and the Social ; 6. The Historical Imagination ; 7. The Ideality of History ; 8. The Perspectivity of History ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisUsing and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire offers a new take on European history from c.900 to c.1050, examining the âpost-Carolingianâ period in its own right and presenting it as a time of creative experimentation with new forms of authority and legitimacy.In the late eighth century, the Frankish king Charlemagne put together a new empire. Less than a century later, that empire had collapsed. The story of Europe following the end of the Carolingian empire has often been presented as a tragedy: a time of turbulence and disintegration, out of which the new, recognisably medieval kingdoms of Europe emerged. This collection offers a different perspective. Taking a transnational approach, the authors contemplate the new social and political order that emerged in tenth- and eleventh-century Europe and examine how those shaping this new order saw themselves in relation to the past. Each chapter explores how the past was used creatively by actors in the regiTrade ReviewMany of the contributors present unique approaches to their topics; some bring little-known texts to the light; some force a reassessment of well-known sources. What this book does do, and does well, is demonstrate the necessity of reconsidering the traditional historiography of the post-Carolingian world, while providing a multifaceted view of the many different approaches and methodologies that can be used to explore it.Laura Wangerin, Seton Hall University, Early Medieval Europe 2022 30 (4)Table of Contents1) Introduction; Past Narratives; 2) The Future of History after Empire; 3) Remembering Troubled Pasts: Episcopal Deposition and Succession in Flodoard’s History of the Church of Rheims; 4) In the Shadow of Rome: After Empire in the late-tenth-century Chronicle of Benedict of Monte Soratte; 5) Infiltrating the Local Past: Supra-regional Players in Local Hagiography from Trier in the Ninth and Tenth centuries; 6) After the Fall: Lives of Texts and Lives of Modern Scholars in the Historiography of the Post-Carolingian World; Inscribing Memories;7) How Carolingian was Early Medieval Catalonia?; 8) Orchestrating Harmony: Litanies, Queens, and Discord in the Carolingian and Ottonian Empires; 9) Models of marriage charters in a notebook of Ademar of Chabannes (ninth-eleventh century); 10) All in the Family: Creating a Carolingian Genealogy in the Eleventh Century; 11) ‘Charles’s stirrups hang down from Conrad’s saddle’: Reminiscences of Carolingian Oath Practice under Conrad II (1024‒1039); Recalling Communities; 12) Notions of Belonging. Some Observations on Solidarity in the Late- and Post Carolingian World; 13) Bishops, Canon Law, and the Politics of Belonging in Post-Carolingian Italy, c. 930-c. 960; 14) Migrant Masters and their Books. Italian Scholars and Knowledge Transfer in post-Carolingian Europe; 15) The Dignity of Our Bodies and the Salvation of Our Souls. Scandal, Purity, and the Pursuit of Unity in Late Tenth-Century Monasticism; 16) Law and Liturgy: Excommunication Records, 900-1050

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