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From the publisher. How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in The Birth of the Past, his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schiffman, Zachary Sayre
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Civilization, Western.
Historiography > Western countries.
Historiography > Philosophy.
History > Philosophy.
Civilisation occidentale.
Historiographie > Occident.
Historiographie > Philosophie.
Histoire > Philosophie.
HISTORY > General.
Civilization, Western
Historiography
Historiography > Philosophy
History > Philosophy
Intellectual life
Western countries > Intellectual life.
Occident > Vie intellectuelle.
Western countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Gestation""; ""Introduction: The Past Defined""; ""PART ONE: Antiquity""; ""Flatland""; ""Pasts Present""; ""The Herodotean Achievement""; ""Thucydides and the Refashionings of Linear Time""; ""Hellenistic Innovations""; ""PART TWO: Christianity""; ""Canâ€?t Get Here from There""; ""The Power of Prayer""; ""Breakthrough to the Now""; ""The Idea of the SÃ?culum""; ""The SÃ?culum Reconfigured""; ""Gregory of Tours and the SÃ?culum""; ""Back from the Future: Bede and the Figural View of Reality""; ""PART THREE: Renaissance""; ""The Living Past""
  • ""The Birth of Anachronism""""Petrarchâ€?s “Copernican Leapâ€?""; ""The Commonplace View of the World""; ""Jean Bodin and the Unity of History""; ""PART FOUR: Enlightenment""; ""Presence and Distance""; ""Biography as a Form of History""; ""The Politics of History""; ""The Relations of Truth / The Truth of Relations""; ""Montesquieu and the Relations of Things""; ""The Past Emerges""; ""Epilogue: The Past Historicized""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""
  • ""R""""s""; ""t""; ""v""; ""w""; ""x""; ""z""

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