Isbn: 9798189125584 - history is a philosophical problem: questions of meaning, change, and human action (3 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. History looks straightforward until someone asks what it means. Why do empires rise and fall? Are revolutions caused by ideas, material conditions, institutions, individual decisions-or bad weather arriving at an inconvenient moment? Does history move toward progress, repeat itself, or simply acquire a direction when historians begin arranging the evidence? History Is a Philosophical Problem explores the questions hidden inside every account of the past. Moving from providence, progress, and historical materialism to causation, contingency, narrative, memory, colonialism, gender, race, and environmental history, it introduces the thinkers and debates that have shaped how history is understood. Drawing on thinkers such as Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Benjamin, Popper, Foucault, Hayden White, Edward Said, and Reinhart Koselleck, as well as historians including Fernand Braudel, E. P. Thompson, Carlo Ginzburg, Theda Skocpol, and Natalie Zemon Davis, the book uses concrete historical examples to explore how historians establish facts, explain actions, identify causes, shape narratives, recover excluded voices, and judge people who lived under very different conditions. It also examines the major objections raised against these approaches. The past may be finished. The argument about what it means is not. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…