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Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? This book investigates how the notion of sublime historical experience complicates and challenges existing conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge.

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments xxx Preface xxx Introduction: Experience in History and in Philosophy 1 1 Linguistic transcendentalism in extremis: The case of Richard Rorty 2 From language to experience 3 Huizinga on historical experience 4 Fragments of a history of historical experience 5 Gadamer and historical experience 6 (Pragmatist) aesthetic experience and historical experience 7 Subjective historical experience: the past as elegy 8 Sublime historical experience Epilogue: Rousseau and Holderlin Notes Index

Sublime Historical Experience

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 28 February 2005
      ISBN-13 9780804749367
      978-0804749367
      ISBN-10 0804749361
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      History: theory and methods

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? This book investigates how the notion of sublime historical experience complicates and challenges existing conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge.

      Table of Contents
      CONTENTS Acknowledgments xxx Preface xxx Introduction: Experience in History and in Philosophy 1 1 Linguistic transcendentalism in extremis: The case of Richard Rorty 2 From language to experience 3 Huizinga on historical experience 4 Fragments of a history of historical experience 5 Gadamer and historical experience 6 (Pragmatist) aesthetic experience and historical experience 7 Subjective historical experience: the past as elegy 8 Sublime historical experience Epilogue: Rousseau and Holderlin Notes Index

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