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Genesis and validity : the theory and practice of intellectual history /
The essays in this collection, by one of the most recognized figures in the field of intellectual history, touch on a wide variety of topics, ranging from the heroism of modern life to the ability of photographs to lie, and explore the fraught connection between the truth of history and the truthful...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Intellectual history of the modern age.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as Judgment of the Past
- Chapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of Contextualization
- Chapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White and Quentin Skinner
- Chapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and Arendt
- Chapter 6. "Hey! What's the Big Idea?": Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual History
- Chapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and the Rus sian Revolution
- Chapter 8. Can Photo graphs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial Anxiety
- Chapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and Photography
- Chapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization: Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel
- Chapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians
- Chapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field?
- Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free Speech
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments