{"product_id":"history-narration-interpretation-orientation-9781571816245","title":"History: Narration, Interpretation, Orientation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tWithout 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Tables and Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e How to Understand Historical Thinking\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: NARRATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Historical Narration: Foundation, Types, Reason\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Narrative Competence: The Ontogeny of Historical and Moral Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Rhetoric and Aesthetics of History: Leopold von Ranke\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Narrativity and Objectivity in Historical Studies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: INTERPRETATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e What is Historical Theory?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e New History: Paradigms of Interpretation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Theoretical Approaches to an Intercultural Comparison of Historiography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Loosening the Order of History: Modernity, Postmodernity, Memory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: ORIENTATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Historical Thinking as Trauerarbeit: Burckhardt’s Answer to a Question of our Time\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Historizing Nazi-Time: Metahistorical Reflections on the Debate Between Friedländer and Broszat\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Holocaust-Memory and German Identity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041424900439,"sku":"9781571816245","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571816245.jpg?v=1750950223","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/history-narration-interpretation-orientation-9781571816245","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}