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Introduction
Chapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as Judgment of
the Past
Chapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of Contextualization
Chapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White and Quentin Skinner
Chapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and Arendt
Chapter 6. "Hey! What's the Big Idea?": Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual History
Chapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and the Russian Revolution
Chapter 8. Can Photographs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial Anxiety
Chapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and Photography
Chapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization: Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel
Chapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians
Chapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field?
Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free Speech
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

Genesis and Validity

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 12 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9780812224962
      978-0812224962
      ISBN-10 0812224965
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      Historiography Western philosophy from c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Chapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as Judgment of
      the Past
      Chapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of Contextualization
      Chapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White and Quentin Skinner
      Chapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century
      Chapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and Arendt
      Chapter 6. "Hey! What's the Big Idea?": Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual History
      Chapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and the Russian Revolution
      Chapter 8. Can Photographs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial Anxiety
      Chapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and Photography
      Chapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization: Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel
      Chapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians
      Chapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field?
      Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free Speech
      Notes
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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