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Key issues in historical theory
"An introduction to the field of historical theory, incorporating examples from novels, paintings, music, and political debates and using text boxes to provide focus on key topics"--
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- What is historical theory?
- What is the past?
- Relations with the past
- The material relation : rooted in the past
- The aesthetic relation : historical narratives
- The political relation : making history
- The epistemic relation (I) : historical hypotheses
- The epistemic relation (II) : historical explanations
- The epistemic relation (III) : truth and plausibility
- The moral relation : lessons from the past
- Relations management : the ethics of historical scholarship.