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At a time when the problems of the past have come to haunt many societies, the question of the social responsibility of the scientist and scholar, and of the historian in particular, has also once again become a topical one. In this volume seven internationally known historians consider this important question.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Historical Practice and Responsibility
F. Bédarida

Chapter 2. History and Rhetoric
P. Ricoeur

Chapter 3. Science and the Responsibility of the Historian
C. Meier

Chapter 4. The Social Function of History
E. Florescano

Chapter 5. The Historian between the Quest for Universality and the Quest for Identity
E. J. Hobsbawm

Chapter 6. The Double Responsibility of the Historian
A. J. Gourévitch

Chapter 7. History and Public Usage of History
N. Gallerano

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

The Social Responsibility of the Historian

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      Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
      Publication Date: 16/03/1995
      ISBN13: 9781571818966, 978-1571818966
      ISBN10: 1571818960

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      At a time when the problems of the past have come to haunt many societies, the question of the social responsibility of the scientist and scholar, and of the historian in particular, has also once again become a topical one. In this volume seven internationally known historians consider this important question.

      DIOGENES LIBRARY



      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1. Historical Practice and Responsibility
      F. Bédarida

      Chapter 2. History and Rhetoric
      P. Ricoeur

      Chapter 3. Science and the Responsibility of the Historian
      C. Meier

      Chapter 4. The Social Function of History
      E. Florescano

      Chapter 5. The Historian between the Quest for Universality and the Quest for Identity
      E. J. Hobsbawm

      Chapter 6. The Double Responsibility of the Historian
      A. J. Gourévitch

      Chapter 7. History and Public Usage of History
      N. Gallerano

      Notes on Contributors
      Bibliography
      Index

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