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Brill Scholarship between Europe and the Levant: Essays in Honour of Alastair Hamilton
Book SynopsisScholarship between Europe and the Levant is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Alastair Hamilton. His pioneering research into the history of European Oriental studies has deeply enhanced our understanding of the dynamics and processes of cultural and religious exchange between Christian Europe and the Islamic world. Written by students, friends and colleagues, the contributions in this volume pay tribute to Alastair Hamilton’s work and legacy. They discuss and celebrate intellectual, artistic and religious encounters between Europe and the cultural area stretching from Northern Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, and spanning the period from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. Contributors: Asaph Ben-Tov, Alexander Bevilacqua, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Charles Burnett, Ziad Elmarsafy, Mordechai Feingold, Aurélien Girard, Bernard Heyberger, Robert Irwin, Tarif Khalidi, J.M.I. Klaver, Noel Malcolm, Martin Mulsow, Francis Richard, G. J. Toomer, Arnoud Vrolijk, Nicholas Warner, Joanna Weinberg, and Jan Just Witkam.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Contributors 1 A Polyglot Traveller in the Republic of Letters Jan Loop 2 Between Literature and History Ziad Elmarsafy 3 Islam as a ‘Rational’ Religion: Early Modern European Views Noel Malcolm 4 Thomas Erpenius, Oriental Scholarship and the Art of Persuasion Arnoud Vrolijk and Joanna Weinberg 5 From Astronomica to Exotica: Jacob Golius’s edition of al-Farghānī’s On the Science of the Stars in Comparison with the Earlier Versions Charles Burnett 6 An Unrecognized ‘Critique’ of John Selden’s Historie of Tithes: John Gregory’s 1634 Edition of View of the Civile and Ecclesiasticall Law by Thomas Ridley Mordechai Feingold 7 Ravius in the East Gerald J. Toomer 8 Die silberne Rippe der orientalischen Schrift. Johann Ernst Gerhards Stammbuch und seine Reise durch die Niederlande im Jahr Martin Mulsow 9 The Errant Eye: Johann Michael Wansleben and the Monasteries of Suhāg Nicholas Warner 10 Histoire connectée du monachisme oriental. De l’érudition catholique en Europe aux réformes monastiques au Mont Liban (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles) Aurélien Girard 11 Historia Literaria Alcorani: Two Lutheran Scholars Chronicling Oriental Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century Asaph Ben-Tov 12 Fasting: The Limits of Catholic Confessionalization in Eastern Christianity in the Eighteenth Century Bernard Heyberger 13 Away with All the Greeks: Ancients, Moderns and Arabs in Étienne Fourmont’s ‘Oratio de lingua Arabica’ (1715) Alexander Bevilacqua 14 Richard Pococke and the Natural Curiosities of the East Jan Marten Ivo Klaver 15 Patrick Russell and the Arabian Nights Manuscripts Maurits H. van den Boogert 16 Volney’s Meditations on Ruins and Empires Robert Irwin 17 Malivoire et Rousseau informateurs de la cour de Vienne: Les bouleversements de la Perse des années 1795–1798 vus de Bagdad Francis Richard 18 Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq in England: 1848–1856 Tarif Khalidi 19 Snouck Hurgronje’s Consular Ambitions Jan Just Witkam Alastair Hamilton—List of Scholarly Publications Index
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Brill Brain and Race: A History of Cerebral Anthropology
Book SynopsisSince the second half of the eighteenth century, generations of scientists persisted in studying the relationships between the volume, weight or shape of the human brain and the degree of ‘intelligence’. In Pogliano’s book, the thread of time drives the narrative up to the mid-twentieth century. It investigates the duration and changes of a game that was intrinsically political, although having to do with bones and nervous matter. Races made its main object, during a long period when Western culture believed the human species to be naturally partitioned into a number of discrete types, with their innate and hereditary traits. Never leading to irrefutable achievements, the polycentric (as well as visual) enterprise herein described is full of growing tensions, doubts, and disillusionment.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Eighteenth-century Onset 1 Darker Skin and Brain 2 Qualitative and Quantitative Differences 3 Speculations and Objections 2 Rising Tide 1 The “Phrenological Wedge” 2 Shrunken Brains 3 Materialism and the Recapitulation Theory 4 Weighing Empty, Filled Spaces 5 The Will to Differentiate 6 Early Doubts 3 Climax 1 Uncertain Certainty: Paris on Stage 2 An Intense Decade 3 An Urgent Desideratum for Science 4 Antinomies and Paradoxes 5 Orphans of Broca 6 “A Literature By Itself” 4 Twentieth-century Epilogue 1 Resilience Despite Everything 2 Further Views in Conflict 3 Innovating Techniques, Popular Science, and Deconstructing Myths Summary Bibliography Index of Names
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Brill Rethinking Stevin, Stevin Rethinking: Constructions of a Dutch Polymath
Book SynopsisThis book studies the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620) as a new type of ‘man of knowledge’. Traditionally, Stevin is best known for his contributions to the ‘Archimedean turn’. This innovative volume moves beyond this conventional image by bringing many other aspects of his work into view, by analysing the connections between the multiple strands of his thinking and by situating him in a broader European context. Like other multi-talents (‘polymaths’) in his time (several of whom are discussed in this volume), Stevin made an important contribution to the transformation of the ideal of knowledge in early modern Europe. This book thus provides new insights into the phenomenon of ‘polymaths’ in general and in the case of Stevin in particular.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface List of Contributors Introduction: Simon Stevin, Polymaths and Polymathy in the Early Modern Period Karel Davids, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Rienk Vermij and Ida Stamhuis 1. The Engineer and the Philosopher. Reflections on the Culture and Economy of Mechanics in Court Society Pietro Daniel Omodeo 2. Vitruvian Universalism. On the Order of Mechanical Knowledge in Joseph Furttenbach the Elder (1591-1667) Jan Lazardzig 3. The Swedish Archimedes. The Formation of the Polymath Christopher Polhem David Dunér 4. Stevin’s Physical Geography: The World as a Chemical Furnace Rienk Vermij 5. The Art of Demonstration by Simon Stevin. Linguistic and Mathematical Innovation Marius Buning 6. Causality and the Reduction to Art in Simon Stevin's Mechanics Maarten Van Dyck 7. The Wise Origins of the Consten. Stevin and Sixteenth-century Debates on Arts, Mathematics, and Language Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis 8. Simon Stevin’s Age of the Sages. In Search of an Alternative Renaissance: Exploring Scientific Methods Based on Pre-Classical Authorities, Empirical Data and Pure Languages Charles van den Heuvel 9. Politics in the Vernacular. The Vita Politica. Het burgherlick leven (1590) as a Practical Handbook for Civic Life Catherine Secretan 10. Simon Stevin’s Music Theory Revisited: A Dialogue H. Floris Cohen and Julia Kursell Index
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Brill Manipulating the Sun: Picturing Astronomical Miracles from the Bible in the Early Modern Era
Book SynopsisThis volume puts two biblical miracles - the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahaz) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 -, in the early modern period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Copernican arguments (in text and image), their reception, their treatment in the mathematical sciences, and their various cultural layers, with a focus on the history of art and the history of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The material discussed spreads from rather prosaic mathematical reflections to highly appealing visual representations of the two miracles.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Julia Ellinghaus and Volker Remmert Part 1 The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Early Modern Printed Material 1 The Prayer of Joshua and the Dial of Ahaz Paratactic Scriptural Illustration in the Lempereur, Vorsterman, and Van Liesveldt Bibles Walter S. Melion 2 Mathematical Certainty and Biblical Inerrancy Pedro Nunes and the Retrogradation of Shadows at the Dial of Ahaz Henrique Leitão 3 Appealing to Ahaz The Jesuits and the Sundial of Ahaz in the Era of Copernican Astronomy Brent Purkaple Part 2 The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun on Early Modern Scientific Instruments 4 Turning Back the Sun Christoph Schissler’s ‘Horologium Ahaz’ as ‘Kunststück’ Andrew Morrall 5 Manipulating the Sun in Depictions on Early Modern Scientific Instruments An Iconographic Study Julia Ellinghaus and Volker Remmert Part 3 The Horologium Ahaz and Joshua Stopping the Sun in Art and Architecture in Specific Locations 6 Stairway to Heaven The Marvellous Staircases of the Medici Villa at Pratolino Denis Ribouillault 7 Joshua Stopping the Sun in the Gesù A Hypothesis Evonne Levy Bibliography Index
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Brill Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisThis book aims at exploring how practical expertise, textual learning, and the gendered bodies intersected with the production of knowledge in early modern Europe. Gendered touch looks at both how representations of gendered bodies contributed to the production of knowledge, and at how practice itself was gendered. By exploring new archival material and by reading anew printed sources, the book inquiries about how knowledge was produced, translated, appropriated, and transmitted among different kinds of actors – both women and men – such as craftspeople, physicians, alchemists, apothecaries, music theorists, natural philosophers, and natural historians.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Gender, History, and Science in Early Modern Europe Francesca Antonelli and Paolo Savoia Part 1: The Gendered Construction of Textual Traditions: The Case of Maria the Alchemist 1 Maria the Alchemist and Her Famous Heated Bath in the Arabo-Islamic Tradition Lucia Raggetti 2 Maria’s Practica in Early Modern Alchemy Matteo Martelli Part 2: Domestic and Apothecary Workshops: Food and Pharmacy in the Seventeenth Century 3 Cheese-Making and Knowledge-Making: Women’s Expertise and Men’s Explanation Paolo Savoia 4 Making Marmalade and Conserving Fruit within the Architecture of Seventeenth-Century Courtly Entertainment Juliet Claxton 5 Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds and Small Scale-Economy Sabrina Minuzzi Part 3: Eighteenth-century Spaces of Gendered Knowledge 6 The “Anonymous Neapolitan”: Faustina Pignatelli and the Bologna Academy of Sciences Paula Findlen 7 Note-taking and Self-promotion: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier as a Secrétaire (1772–1792) Francesca Antonelli 8 Musical Bodies: Materiality, Gender, and Knowledge in Musical Performance in 18th-century France Amparo Fontaine Postface On Hands, Feelings, and a Nose: Bodies Beyond Gender as Transdisciplinary Tools in Science Paola Govoni Index
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Sodertorn University Martha Nussbaum: Ancient Philosophy, Civic Education and Liberal Humanism
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Helsinki University Press Digital Histories: Emergent Approaches within the New Digital History
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Writing Early Modern History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd What is History For
Book SynopsisAn experienced author of history and theory presents this examination of the purpose of history at a time when recent debates have rendered the question ''what is history for?'' of utmost importance.Charting the development of historical studies and examining how history has been used, this study is exceptional in its focus on the future of the subject as well as its past. It is argued that history in the twenty-first century must adopt a radical and morally therapeutic role instead of studying for ''its own sake''.Providing examples of his vision of ''history in post-modernity'', Beverley Southgate focuses on the work of four major historians, including up-to-date publications: Robert A. Rosenstone''s study of Americans living in nineteenth-century Japan Peter Novick''s work on the Holocaust Sven Lindgvist''s A History of Bombing Tzvetan Todorov''s recently published work on the twentieth century. This makTable of Contents1. Humanities and Therapeutic Education 2. History for its Own Sake 3. Professed Purposes 4. Hidden Agendas 5. Life and Needs in Postmodernity 6. History in Postmodernity: Future Prospects 7. Histories for Postmodernity: Some Aspirations 8. Histories for Postmodernity: Some Examples
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and History
Book SynopsisDespite the fact that time, evolution, becoming and genealogy are central concepts in Deleuze''s work, there has been no sustained study of his philosophy in relation to the question of history. This book aims to open up Deleuze''s relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems.The essays in this volume (all by internationally recognised Deleuze scholars) cover all aspects of Deleuze''s philosophy and its relation to history, ranging from the application of Deleuze''s philosophy to historical method, Deleuze''s own use of the history of philosophy, his interpretations of other historical thinkers (such as Hume and Nietzsche) and the complex theories of time and evolution in his work.Contributors include: Paul Patton, Manuel DeLanda, John Protevi, Ian Buchanan, Tim Flanagan, James Williams, Eve Bischoff, Jay Lampert.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Claire Colebrook; 1. Events, Becoming and History, Paul Patton; 2. Of the Rise and Progress of Philosophical Concepts, Deleuze's Humean Historiography, Jeff Bell; 3. Theory of Delay in Balibar, Freud, and Deleuze, Decalage, Nachtraglichkeit, Retard, Jay Lampert; 4. Geohistory and hydro-bio-politics, John Protevi; 5. The Thought of History in Benjamin & Deleuze, Tim Flanagan; 6. The Cannibal Within, White Men and the Embodiment of Evolutionary Time, Eve Bischoff; 7. Ageing, Pperpetual Perishing and the Event as Pure novelty, Peguy, Whitehead and Deleuze on time and history, James Williams; 8. Cinema, chronos/cronos, becoming an accomplice to the impasse of history, David Deamer; 9. Deleuze's Untimely, Uses and Abuses in the Appropriation of Nietzsche, Craig Lundy; 10. Is Anti-Oedipus a May '68 book?, Ian Buchanan; 11. Molar Entities and Molecular Populations in Human History, Manuel DeLanda; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press History and Becoming
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how Deleuze's philosophy provides us with a novel and important notion of historical creativity - that is, a way of thinking about history as an ontological force of creativity.Trade ReviewWhat is the relation between history and becoming? How is the creativity of becoming entangled with the history it either modifies or transforms? Lundy responds to such questions in this rich and lucid book. A must read for anyone who appreciates Deleuze and/or addresses the enigma of creativity. -- William E. Connolly, Krieger-Esienhower Professor, Johns Hopkins University What is the relation between history and becoming? How is the creativity of becoming entangled with the history it either modifies or transforms? Lundy responds to such questions in this rich and lucid book. A must read for anyone who appreciates Deleuze and/or addresses the enigma of creativity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Depths of History; Historical Intensities; Historical Depth; Towards the Future; 2. The Surfaces of History; The Logic of Surface Becoming; The History of Developmental Becoming; The Herculean Surface 3. Nomadic History; The Nomad and the State; The Phylum and the Smith; Pluralism=Monism; 4. From Prehistory to Universal History; The Prehistory of the State Apparatus; The Universalism of Capitalism; The Contingency of Universal History; The Creativity of Universal History; 5. What is History in What Is Philosophy?; Historical Concepts; Historical Planes; Historical Personae; Historiophilosophy; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Paradata and Transparency in Virtual Heritage
Book SynopsisComputer-Generated Images (CGIs) are widely used and accepted in the world of entertainment but the use of the very same visualization techniques in academic research in the Arts and Humanities remains controversial. The techniques and conceptual perspectives on heritage visualization are a subject of an ongoing interdisciplinary debate. By demonstrating scholarly excellence and best technical practice in this area, this volume is concerned with the challenge of providing intellectual transparency and accountability in visualization-based historical research. Addressing a range of cognitive and technological challenges, the authors make a strong case for a wider recognition of three-dimensional visualization as a constructive, intellectual process and valid methodology for historical research and its communication. Intellectual transparency of visualization-based research, the pervading theme of this volume, is addressed from different perspectives reflecting the theory and practice oTrade Review'By addressing a range of conceptual and technological challenges this title demonstrates that providing intellectual accountability, or ’transparency’, is the key to establishing computerised visualisation methods as a rigorous, constructive, and vital contribution to historical research and its communication.' Library and Information ResearchTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Anna Bentkowska-Kafel and Hugh Denard; Part I Conventions and Emerging Standards: Defining our terms in heritage visualization, Richard C. Beacham; Scientific method, chaîne opératoire and visualization: 3D modelling as a research tool in archaeology, Sorin Hermon; Setting standards for 3D visualization of cultural heritage in Europe and beyond, Franco Niccolucci; More than pretty pictures of the past: an American perspective on virtual heritage, Donald H. Sanders; A new introduction to the London Charter, Hugh Denard; The London Charter for the Computer-based Visualisation of Cultural Heritage (version 2.0, February 2009). Part II Data Interpretation: Methods and Tools: Walking with dragons: CGIs in wildlife 'documentaries', Mark Carnall; Hypothesizing Southampton in 1454: a 3-dimensional model of the medieval town, Matt Jones; Paradata in art-historical research: a visualization of Piet Mondrian's studio at 5 rue de Coulmiers, Ryan Egel-Andrews; Just how predictable is predictive lighting?, Kate Devlin; Lies, damned lies and visualizations: will metadata and paradata be a solution or a curse?, Martin J. Turner; Intricacies and potentials of gathering paradata in the 3D modelling workflow, Sven Havemann. Part III Data Management and Communication: Defining paradata in heritage visualization, Drew Baker; Transparency for empirical data, Mark Mudge; Behaviours, interactions and affordance in virtual archaeology, Maurizio Forte and Sofia Pescarin; How to make sustainable visualizations of the past: an EPOCH common infrastructure tool for interpretation management, Daniel Pletinckx. Part IV Conclusion: Processual scholia: the importance of paradata in heritage visualization, Anna Bentkowska-Kafel; Glossary of terms; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Concept of History
Book SynopsisDmitri Nikulin is Chair of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research in New York, USA. His interests range from ancient and early modern philosophy to the philosophy of dialogue and of literature. He is the author of a number of books including Matter, Imagination and Geometry (2002), On Dialogue (2006), Dialectic and Dialogue (2010), and Comedy, Seriously (2014). He is also the editor of and contributor to The Other Plato (2012) and Memory: A Philosophical History ( 2015).Trade ReviewNikulin’s book is a remarkable effort of scholarship. He presents a compelling argument for how the very conception of history with which we operate is itself a historical product that emerged as a practice through a process of assimilation and differentiation from other practices and forms of discourse … Thus even if one disagrees with the conclusions the author reaches, it is hard to see how anyone could write about the philosophy of history without somehow acknowledging and confronting the conceptual advancements this book sets forth. * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *[A] major contribution to the understanding of what history is and what it is not … The author is at his best not only when he argues that historians seek meaning in their choice of subjects and seek truth in dealing with them, but also when he notes that they may seek to save the past for the future. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and faculty. * CHOICE *Nikulin offers a wide-ranging and compelling treatment of the philosophy of history. The book’s implications are philosophically significant and will interest a range of readers. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Nikulin's tour de force questions three deeply-held idols in the philosophy of history: 1. that history is purposeful, 2. history is unidirectional, and 3. history is systematic. Rather than simply debunk them, however, his rigorous analysis shows how the question of what history amounts to remains philosophically relevant. Through an exploration demonstrating equal familiarity with Homer and the ancient historians, the early moderns and German idealists, and current practitioners such as Hayden White and Jan Assmann, Nikulin shows that history is both multifaceted yet unifying, structured yet fluid, without purpose yet not bereft of meaning. The chapters on Homer and Memory alone may well be worth the price of the book. This study contains insights relevant to the entire range of interested parties--from first-time inquirers to specialists. It makes a real contribution to the revivification of philosophical interest in history. -- Jeffrey Bernstein, Associate Professor of philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, USANikulin offers us a significant and mature reflection on the philosophy of history that asks for our attentive consideration. He writes with impressive intelligence, wide ranging reference and in a thoughtful manner that engages the reader. Avoiding the extreme of a univocal universal history, he offers us a pluralistic view of multiple histories, without at the same time falling into historicist relativism. Warmly recommended. * William Desmond, Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements and Dedication 1. The structures of history 2. Early history 3. The epic of history 4. The Homer galaxy 5. The logos of history 6. Memory and history 7. The genealogy of history Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Why Collingwood Matters
Book SynopsisR.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian and practicing archaeologist. His work, particularly in the philosophy of action and history, has been profoundly influential in the 20th and 21st century. Although the importance of his work is indisputable, this is the first book to consider how and why it actually matters. Giussepina D''oro considers the importance of Collingwood as a thinker who thinks kaleidoscopically and, unlike lots of contemporary philosophers, refuses to focus on narrow, technical interests but instead, observes the whole world of thought. Why Collingwood Matters revives Collingwood''s conception of the role and character of philosophical analysis and shows how it informs his understanding of the mind, what it means to act, and what it means to understand the past historically. It also argues for the relevance of his metaphilosophical approach to the challenge posed by the Anthropocene and the global environmental crisis. Both aTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. What does Philosophy do? 2.1 Questions and their Presuppositions 2.2 The Philosopher as a Logical Detective 2.3 Different Ways of Looking at the World 2.4 Nothing Wrong with Science, the Problem is Scientism 2.5 No Contest Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image 2.6 The Devil is in the Detail: Explanatory Pluralism, not Relativism 2.7 Why Philosophy Matters Even if it Bakes no Bread 3. Mind 3.1 The Telescopic View of the Mind and the Layered View of the Sciences 3.2 The Usual Non-Reductivist Suspects 3.3 The Bifurcated View of the Sciences and the Manifest Image of Mind 3.4 Working Within the Constraint that Philosophy Should Not Conflict with Science 3.5 Why Mind is Not Matter 4. Action 4.1 The Kantian Antinomy of Freedom and Determinism 4.2 Rationalizations and Causal Explanations 4.3 Anomalous Monism and Anti-Causalism 4.4 Why Actions are not Events 5. History 5.1 The Historical and the Natural Past 5.2 How to Understand Other Minds Historically 5.3 The Narrative Turn, Postmodernism and Re-enactment 5.4 Cultural Anthropology with Collingwood and Quine 5.5 Why the Past can be Known 6. The Nature/Culture Distinction 6.1 The Challenge of the Anthropocene 6.2 Just an Ideology for the Industrial Revolution? 6.3 Is the Nature/Culture Distinction Speciesist? 6.4 Historical and Chemical agents 6.5 Why Defending the Nature Culture/Distinction Matters to the Environmental Crisis 7. Conclusion: Why Collingwood Matters Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History
Book SynopsisLukas M. Verburgt is Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and guest researcher at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction: History of Science – Past, Present, Future, Lukas M. Verburgt (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands) 1. Global History of Science, James Poskett (University of Warwick, UK) a. Comment: Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Cambridge and Royal Institution, UK) b. Response: James Poskett (University of Warwick, UK) 2. Gender History of Science, Donald L. Opitz (DePaul University, USA) a. Comment: Joanna Wharton (University of York, UK) b. Response: Donald L. Opitz (DePaul University, USA) 3. Post/Decolonial History of Science and STS, Suman Seth(Cornell University, USA) a. Comment: Meredith Alberta Palmer (Cornell University, USA) b. Response: Suman Seth & Meredith Alberta Palmer (both Cornell University, USA) 4. Neo-Kantian/Post-Kuhnian History and Philosophy of Science, Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech University, USA) a. Comment: Katherina Kinzel (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) b. Response: Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech University, USA) 5. Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (&HPS), Max Dresow (University of Minnesota, USA) a. Comment: Hasok Chang (The University of Cambridge, UK) b. Response: Max Dresow (University of Minnesota, USA) 6. Historical Epistemology, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) a. Comment: Massimiliano Simons (Maastricht University, The Netherlands and KU Leuven, Belgium) b. Response: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) 7. Environmental History of Science, Johan Gärdebo (University of Uppsala, Sweden) a. Comment: Libby Robin (Australian National University, Australia) b. Response: Johan Gärdebo (University of Uppsala, Sweden) 8. Multispecies History of Science, Raf de Bont (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) a. Comment: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter, UK) b. Response: Raf de Bont (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) 9. Material and Performative History of Science, Marieke Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands) a. Comment: Pamela Smith (Columbia University, USA) b. Response: Marieke Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands) 10. Computational History of Science, Julia Damerow and Manfred Laubichler (both Arizona State University USA) a. Comment: Colin Frederick Allen (University of Pittsburgh, USA) b. Response: Julia Damerow & Manfred Laubichler (both Arizona State University USA) 11. History of Knowledge, Peter Burke (University of Cambridge, UK) a. Comment: James A. Secord (University of Cambridge, UK) b. Response: Peter Burke (University of Cambridge, UK) 12. History of Scientific Ignorance, Lukas M. Verburgt (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands) a. Comment: Jouni-Matti Kuukanen (University of Oulu, Finland) b. Response: Lukas M. Verburgt (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands) 13. Agnotology in History of Science, Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University, USA) a. Comment: Anna Lisa Ahlers (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany) b. Response: Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University, USA) Bibliography Index
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Edinburgh University Press The Life and Work of W. Montgomery Watt
Book SynopsisThis commemorative volume discusses aspects of the life and work of the internationally famous scholar Professor W. Montgomery Watt (1909 2006).
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Berghahn Books History: Narration, Interpretation, Orientation
Book Synopsis 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 aspects, factors and developments of historical thinking from the 18th century to the present, thus continuing, in exemplary fashion, the tradition of critical self-reflection in the humanities and looking at historical studies as an important factor of cultural orientation in practical life.Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures Preface Introduction: How to Understand Historical Thinking PART 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 PART 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 PART 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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de Gruyter Oldenbourg Virtual and RealLife Spaces of Jewish Europe in the 21st Century
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De Gruyter Video Game Ecologies and Culture
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de Gruyter Oldenbourg The Politics of Historical Interpretation
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Kohlhammer Werkzeuge Der Historiker: Innen: Antike
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BÃhlau Verlag KÃln Archiv fÃr Diplomatik Schriftgeschichte Siegel
Book SynopsisArchiv fÃr Diplomatik 70 (2024)
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Duncker & Humblot Der Kronprinz Und Die Nazis: Hohenzollerns
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Kirche in Der Krise Und Die Antworten Des Rechts (500-1500)
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V&r Academic Konsum Und Politik Nach Dem Boom
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V&r Academic Die DDR Im Blick Der Stasi 1954
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Adenauers Ostpolitik
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die DDR im Blick der Stasi 1966
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die DDR im Blick der Stasi 1973
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V&r Academic Regesten Zu Den Briefregistern Des Deutschen
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V&R unipress Historische Bildung regional
Book SynopsisLernpotenziale durch regional- und lokalgeschichtliche Perspektiven ausschÃpfen
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The University of Chicago Press The Limits of History
Book SynopsisHistory casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. This title considers the work of Hermann Conring (1606-81) and Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1313/1457), two antipodes in early modern battles over the principles of European thought and action that ended with the triumph of historical consciousness.Trade Review"Some knowledge of the past is possible, and we can still differentiate good from bad history by using all the techniques established by the profession over the course of hundreds of years. But what is impossible is to divide the past from the present. To have demonstrated this conclusively is this book's major achievement, and Constantin Fasolt does so in beautiful language. The volume contains many sentences which practitioners of history should write down and keep before their eyes when practicing their craft." (German History)"
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The University of Chicago Press Ancients Against Moderns Culture Wars the
Book SynopsisAs the end of the 20th century approaches, many predict that it will mirror the 19th-century decline into decadence. The author of this text finds a closer analogy with the culture wars of France in the 1690s - a battle of the books known as the Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Did the Seventeenth Century Create Our Fin de Siecle? or, The Making of the Enlightenment That We May at Last Be Leaving Behind Ch. 2: The Invention of a Public for Literature Ch. 3: A Short History of the Human Heart Ch. 4: Culture or Civilization? Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Ancients against Moderns Culture Wars and the
Book SynopsisAs the end of the 20th century approaches, many predict that it will mirror the 19th-century decline into decadence. The author of this text finds a closer analogy with the culture wars of France in the 1690s - a battle of the books known as the "Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns".
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The University of Chicago Press Sartre Foucault and Historical Reason Volume One
Book SynopsisThis volume, the first of a two-part work on existentialist theory, provides a reconstruction of Sartrean historical theory, and provocatively anticipates the Foucauldian counterpoint of volume two.
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The University of Chicago Press Behemoth or The Long Parliament
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The University of Chicago Press History as Art and as Science Twin Vistas on the
Book SynopsisProfessor Hughes offers an earnest warning: 'Unless there is some emotional tie, some elective affinity linking the student to his subject of study, the results will be pedantic and perfunctory.' In other words, it is only a step from the sublime to the meticulous. Those eager to guard against that sad descent will find History as Art and as Science a guide, a tonic, and an inspiration. Its short, electrifying essays are so magnificently sane and persuasive they should be required reading for every student who contemplates a major in history.Geoffrey Bruun, Saturday Review
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The University of Chicago Press The Critique of Pure Modernity Hegel Heidegger
Book SynopsisModernity is a troubling concept, not only for scholars but for the general public, for it seems to represent a choice between oppressive traditions and empty, rootless freedom. Seeking a broader understanding of modernity, Kolb first considers the views of Weber and then discusses in detail the pivotal writings of Hegel and Heidegger. He uses the novel strategy of presenting Heidegger's critique of Hegel and then suggesting the critique of Heidegger that Hegel might have made. Kolb offers his own views, proposing the possibility of a meaningful life that is free but still rooted in shared contexts. He concludes with comments on postmodernity as discussed by Lyotard and others, arguing persuasively against the presupposition of a unified Modern or Postmodern Age.
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The University of Chicago Press Thinking in the Past Tense
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This survey of many of the best practitioners of early modern intellectual history working today is equally informative and pleasurable for scholars of all times and places. Bevilacqua and Clark take a snapshot of the state of the art in professional writing about ideas and how different lines of thought and alternative modes of practice have converged and clashed in the origins of our times. And though the study of early modern Europe has been the crucible for our debates about how to write intellectual history generally, several contributors anticipate a future in which Europe's past is less and less central. A fascinating read."--Samuel Moyn, Yale University "In an age dominated by the sound bite and the tweet, it can be hard to resist the melancholy conclusion that the humanities are in crisis and that scholarship no longer beckons as a spiritual vocation. Thinking in the Past Tense offers reason for hope. In this intimate gallery of portraits we come face to face with eight distinguished practitioners of early modern intellectual history, and we are reminded once again of the traditional virtues of erudition and philological precision that continue to sustain this field even at a time when historical understanding seems under siege."--Peter E. Gordon, Harvard University
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The University of Chicago Press Collective Memory and the Historical Past
Book SynopsisTrade Review"His study is admirable for the way he relates the story of philosophers’ thinking about memory to today's crisis about its relationship to history. There are several informative studies that explain the workings of digital‐age memory. But Barash's study is distinctive for his insight into the politics of its technologies from a humanist perspective. His review of the historical role of collective memory as living memory is welcome at a time in which such memory, so widely referenced in academic discourse, is in fact contracting in the face of technologies of communication that are remodeling contemporary culture. His analysis might be read as an apostrophe to our society at large concerning the way publicity‐driven values of media are fast crowding out the living memory that serves as collective memory's core." * History and Theory *“[A] highly insightful and erudite book on the complex relationship of the past to the present. Moving capaciously from the ancient period to the present, [Barash] addresses a wide range of issues regarding what it means to remember… It raises a host of important questions about memory and history, while placing an important emphasis on history as an affirmation of the transience of human life.” -- Michael Meng * Journal of the History of Ideas *“Barash employs a philosophical method derived from Paul Ricoeur, Ernst Cassirer, and Reinhart Koselleck to argue, convincingly, that each generation encounters and interprets history from the perspective of a ‘horizon of temporality’ in which ‘webs of experience’ emerge. It is through these largely unnoticed webs of experience that each generation gains access to the past. Thus, Barash claims, there is an unbridgeable gap between the past as a lived experience and subsequent attempts to retrieve it from the vantage point of present experience. By demonstrating the fundamental difference between historical experience and the production of collective memory, Barash seeks to safeguard history from mythology. He provides a helpful introduction to the concept of memory as developed in Western philosophy, and in several chapters he applies his method to historical cases, most notably the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. Though the book is deep and wide-ranging and the material is complex, the author’s prose is clear and accessible. Highly recommended.” * Choice *"For a long time collective memory has been a subject of debate, but Barash’s work convincingly reopens the discussion and shows a new perspective. This is done through linking academic debates on the nature of memory to a philosophical analysis that not only stretches towards every corner of the humanities and the social sciences, but also relates to the interplay between collective memory, literature, politics, everyday life, and most importantly: history. Thus, this multifaceted contemplation provides us with both a profound and extensive analysis of the role of collective memory in all aspects of modern society, as well as a new conceptual framework to be used in current philosophical debates." * Journal of the Philosophy of History *"Jeffrey Andrew Barash has written a very scholarly book that proves both a philosophical work and a history of ideas. . . . Barash’s work is a provocative opening. When we come to reflect on our heritage, whether age-long or recent, the point is to choose what is worth preserving, and what needs changing." -- Andrew Dunstall * Journal of the History of Ideas Blog *"The execution of the argument is impressive: the author marshals an enormous corpus of philosophers and writers from Plato through Heidegger to argue that the boundary between collective memory and the historical past changes in accord with sociopolitical shifts, is fluid but also distinct." * Journal of Modern History *“Collective Memory and the Historical Past… is a monograph by a distinguished scholar of philosophy and intellectual history that directly tackles the notion of collective memory, the slippery concept that lies at the core of most social scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of memory.” * Journal of Contemporary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Sources of Memory Part 1 Symbolic Embodiment, Imagination, and the “Place” of Collective Memory 1 Is Collective Memory a Figment of the Imagination? The Scope of Memory in the Public Sphere 2 Analyzing Collective Memory 3 Thresholds of Personal Identity and Public Experience Excursus Critical Reflections: The Contemporary Theories of Ricœur, Edelman, and Nora Part 2 Time, Collective Memory, and the Historical Past 4 Temporal Articulations 5 Virtual Experience, the Mass Media, and the Configuration of the Public Sphere 6 The Contextualized Past: Collective Memory and Historical Understanding Conclusion The Province of Collective Memory and Its Theoretical Promise Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press An Ethics of Remembering History Heterology the
Book SynopsisThrough the figure of the heterological historian, this text creates a framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian. It also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as film and the Internet, which add new constraints to the writing of history.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Abbreviations 1: Re-signing History, De-signing Ethics The Historian's Promise Historical Truth and the End of Representation The Necessity of Naming That Which Cannot Be Named: The Cataclysm Historical Narrative History as Science: L'Esprit de Geometrie et L'Esprit de Finesse Factuality Revisited: Lies, Fiction, Ficciones Ficciones and History: Foucault 2: Reading the Heterological Historian Reading Kant The Nihil and Analogy Heteronomy's Rule The Ends of History The Aesthetic and the Cataclysm 3: The Historical Object and the Mark of the Grapheme: Images, Simulacra, and Virtual Reality Runaway Images The Historian and the Camera: Still Photography The Co-optation of the Look History as Archive of the Moving Image The French Revolution in Narrative and Film Images and Information 4: Wired in the Absolute: Hegel and the Being of Appearance The Specular Absolute and Release from the Object Plenum and Void Terror and Cataclysm 5: Re-membering the Past: The Historian as Time Traveler Voyages in Time Time's Duality: From Hegel to Nietzsche and Back McTaggart's Paradox: Tensed and Tenseless Time The Speech and Silence of Heterology 6: Re-membering the Past The Tablet and the Aviary "That This Too Too Solid Flesh Would Melt" From "Trace" to Shining Trace Flickering Memories: Images and Signs La Cage aux Folles: From Tablet to Aviary and Back The Mind Is a Bone: Skull, Brains, and Memory Matter Matters: Brain States and Mental Acts Differance Is in the Neurons Ownerless Memories: Artificial Life and Biological Computers 7: The Gift of Community Unsaying Rational Community: Autochthony and Desire Humanity's Essence Is Production Exteriority and Community The Gift of the Future The Gift of Hope Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press An Ethics of Remembering
Book SynopsisThrough the figure of the heterological historian, this text creates a framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian. It also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as film and the Internet, which add new constraints to the writing of history.
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The University of Chicago Press Time Maps Collective Memory the Social Shape of
Book SynopsisIn a pioneering attempt to map the structure of our collective memory, Zerubavel considers the cognitive patterns we use to organize the past in our minds, the mental strategies that help us string together unrelated events into coherent and meaningful narratives.
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Columbia University Press Camera Historica The Century in Cinema European
Book SynopsisAntoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before their eyes, certain twentieth-century filmmakers used a particular mise-en-scene to give form to history, becoming in the process historians themselves. Historical events, in turn, irrupted into cinema. This double movement, which de Baecque terms the cinematographic form of history, disrupts the very material of film, much like historical events disturb the narrative of human progress. De Baecque defines, locates, and interprets cinematographic forms in seven distinct bodies of cinema: 1950s modern cinema and its conjuring of the morbid trauma of war; French New Wave and its style, which became the negative imprint of the malaise felt by young contemporaries of the Algerian War; post-Communist Russian films, or the de-modern works ofTrade ReviewDe Baecque is one of our most meticulous and enterprising film historians, and in Camera Historica, he finds a new way of looking at the two sides of his interest, film and history, making each a clarifying reflection of the other. As a particular bonus, he's especially good on important filmmakers who emerged during the 1960s, such as the Nouvelle Vague and Peter Watkins. -- Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic Camera Historica marks a new stage in thinking about the relationship between cinema (as art) and history (as both real and narrative). Going beyond the classic 'histories of cinema,' this book reveals what cinema makes of history, its way of making history visible, and of allowing us to judge it. -- Alain Badiou Thanks to this book I now understand precisely why and how I am goth. -- Tim Burton Those in search of superb academic writing need look no further. De Baecque renders a beguiling mix of auteurism, rigorous methodology, and historical analysis in an evenhanded, engaging tone. -- Jonathan Robbins Film Comment Cinema and history are in lively dialogue here, which creates much more exciting reading...highly recommended. Choice Politics, social insights and film art blend in a scholarly international probe perfect for film analysts studying the art and culture of cinema. Midwest Book Review presents an intelligent, opinionated, emotionally engaging, intermittently flawed meditation on cinema's ongoing negotiations with history... -- David Sterritt Cineaste Camera Historica is a refreshing and stimulating read, ultimately offering a vital contribution to the ongoing need for serious discussions of the intersections between film and history. -- Paula Amad American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPrelude: The Tree of History Introduction: The Cinematographic Forms of History 1. Foreclosed Forms: How Images of Mass Death Reemerged in Modern Cinema 2. From Versailles to the Silver Screen: Sacha Guitry, Historian of France 3. "Me? Uh, Nothing!" The French New Wave, Politics, and History 4. Peter Watkins, Live from History: The Films, Style, and Method of Cinema's Special Correspondent 5. The Theory of Sparks: A History in Images, According to Jean-Luc Godard 6. Demodern Aesthetics: Filming the End of Communism 7. America Unraveled: Master Fictions in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Conclusion: All Histories Are Possible Notes Illustration Credits Index
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Columbia University Press On the Judgment of History
Book SynopsisJoan Wallach Scott critically examines the belief that history will redeem us, revealing the implicit politics of appeals to the judgment of history. She argues that the notion of a linear, ever-improving direction of history hides the persistence of power structures and hinders the pursuit of alternative futures.Trade ReviewThis book is a poignant and timely intervention that speaks to urgent questions in and of our present. It brilliantly enacts its own self-critical reassessment of widespread contemporary incredulity that virulent racism and nationalism are ‘still’ possible. Joan Wallach Scott turns to contemporary debates over the question of reparations for slavery in order to imagine alternative understandings and avenues for historical reckoning—and politics. -- Judith Surkis, author of Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930On the Judgment of History is a stunning and timely meditation on history, both as a field of inquiry and as the broadest arena of human activity, and on justice, both as an ideal and as a state institution. This book will provoke intellectual excitement among a wide range of readers. -- Andrew Zimmerman, author of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New SouthScott offers a forceful and persuasive critique of the modern Western tendency among liberals and orthodox Marxists to justify normative political projects on the grounds that they will be authorized by the 'judgment of history.' Challenging residual assumptions about linear, progressive, or teleological history, she questions any political logic which assumes that the rightness of current struggles will be ratified by future observers or that present harms will be redeemed by subsequent outcomes. Scott underscores how such problematic assumptions are grounded in both an attachment to national states and to a fixed boundary between the past and the present. Echoing throughout is a crucial question: what happens to politics when history no longer provides a secure ground for orienting action? This intervention demands the attention of historians, political theorists, and legal scholars. -- Gary Wilder, author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the WorldScott has done her part to dismantle naïve metanarratives of progress, yet she was harboring one, all the same. The argument of On the Judgment of History aims right at that ambivalence, which has its roots in the commonplace desire to believe in the possibility of secular theodicy: that is, an account of the existence of evil that nonetheless assures us some good will come of it. The yearning is understandable but problematic. A belief that the long moral arc of the universe bends toward justice can be inspiring. But it also runs the risk of turning into complacency. -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *This is a book of reflection, deep reflection, not new research. The rewards of reading come from Scott’s penetrating analyses of familiar historical materials and her dialogue with other analysts, from Hannah Arendt to Michel de Certeau to Ta-Nehisi Coates * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsPreface: History, Race, Nation1. The Nation- State as the Telos of History: Nuremberg, 19462. The Limits of Forgiveness: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 19963. Calling History to Account: The Movement for Reparations for Slavery in the United StatesEpilogue: Revisioning HistoryAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Other Pasts Different Presents Alternative
Book SynopsisWhat if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The questioning of apparent certainties or known knowns can be fascinating and, indeed, What if? books are very popular. However, this speculative approach, known as counterfactualism, has had limited impact in academic histories, historiography, and the teaching of historical methods. In this book, Jeremy Black offers a short guide to the subject, one that is designed to argue its value as a tool for public and academe alike. Black focuses on the role of counterfactualism in demonstrating the part of contingency, and thus human agency, in history, and the salutary critique the approach offers to determinist accounts of past, present, and future.Trade ReviewOther Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures will be of use to those teaching methods and sources to provoke reflection on individual teaching practice and as a tool for thinking more carefully about how we can appropriately use 'what if's' in our teaching. * History of Education *A sparkling defense of the legitimacy and utility of counterfactual history—of what ifs—and the best single work on its subject available. * Weekly Standard *Professor Black shows, in this intriguing book, exactly why the examination of different potential outcomes can aid historical understanding. He pinpoints how the expectation of events, even when unrealised, can determine human actions and affect perceptions of both past and future. Black demonstrates that, in skilful hands, counterfactual history is more than just fun; as one ingredient among many, it can be an extremely fertile source of explanation. * History Today *With a unique methodology, Black performs a what-if analysis of history to show how little it takes to change the world's fate. . .This book provokes thought and speculation while also entertaining. * Foreword Reviews *[Black's] illustrative examples of 'what if,' 'how,' and 'why' will make readers sit back and wonder. * Kirkus Reviews *This is the most robust defense of historical counterfactuals to date . . . For those interested in this fascinating subject, Black's book is indispensable. * Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) *Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction2. A Personal Note on Life and Times3. Types of History4. Power and the Struggle for Imperial Mastery5. The West and the Rest6. Britain and France, 1688-18157. Counterfactualism in Military History8. Into the Future9. Skepticism and the Historian10. Conclusions11. PostscriptSelected Further ReadingIndex
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Indiana University Press The Future of the Soviet Past The Politics of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, this is a popular topic well handled and essential for students and scholars across several disciplines. The volume provides a good overview of contemporary Russia, and as scholars we should now consider how else these new avenues of research can be unlocked. -- James C. Pearce - College of the Marshall Islands * The Russian Review *This volume considers the relationship between the history of the Soviet Union and contemporary Russian culture, exploring how cinema, television, music, education and more reflect historical narratives, particularly in relation to Josef Stalin. The contributors contend that 'Russia's inability to fully rewrite Soviet history plays [a] part in its current political agenda'. * Survival *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revisiting the Future of the Soviet Past and the Memory of Stalinist Repression, by Nanci Adler and Anton Weiss-WendtPart I: The Present Memory of the Past1. Presentism, Politicization of History, and the New Role of the Historian in Russia, by Ivan Kurilla2. Secondhand History: Outsourcing Russia's Past to Kremlin's Proxies, by Anton Weiss-Wendt3. The Soviet Past and the 1945 Victory Cult as Civil Religion in Contemporary Russia, by Nikita Petrov4. Russia as a Bulwark against Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial: The Second World War according to Moscow, by Kiril FefermanPart II: Museums, Pop Culture, and Other Memory Battlegrounds5. Keeping the Past in the Past: The Attack on the Perm 36 Gulag Museum and Russian Historical Memory of Soviet Repression, by Steven A. Barnes6. Known and Unknown Soldiers: Remembering Russia's Fallen in the Great Patriotic War, by Johanna Dahlin7. Fighters of the Invisible Front: Re-imaging the Aftermath of the Great Patriotic War in Recent Russian Television Series, by Boris Noordenbos8. War, Cinema, and the Politics of Memory in Putin 2.0 Culture, by Stephen M. NorrisPart III: Remembering and Framing the Soviet Past beyond Russia's Borders9. The 2014 Russian Memory Law in European Context, by Nikolay Koposov10. Tenacious Pasts: Geopolitics and the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Issues, by George Soroka11. The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Return to the Soviet Interpretation, by Štěpán ČernoušekIndex
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