CiNii Books - Historical experience : essays on the phenomenology of history

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- Carr, David

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Historical experience : essays on the phenomenology of history

David Carr

（Routledge approaches to history, 42）

Routledge, 2021

: hbk

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Bibliography: p. [167]-170

Includes index

Summary: "This volume brings together a collection of recent essays on the philosophy and theory of history. Phenomenology is about experience. In our language, "history" usually means either 1) what happened, i.e. past events, or 2) our knowledge of what happened. We can't experience past events, and whatever knowledge we have of them must come from other sources-memory, testimony, physical traces. Through these essays, the author explains how we can experience historical events. Sitting at the intersection of philosophy and history, this is the ideal volume for those interested in experience from a philosophical and historical perspective"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

On historicity
Reflections on temporal perspective : the use and abuse of hindsight
The stories of our lives : aging and narrative on being historical
Teleology and the experience of history
Husserl and Foucault on the historical A priori : teleological and anti-teleological views of history
Historical teleology : the grand illusion?
On the metaphilosophy of history
Intersubjectivity and embodiment
History as orientation : Rüsen on historical culture and narration
Erlebnis and history
Experience and history

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume brings together a collection of recent essays on the philosophy and theory of history. This is a field of lively interdisciplinary discussion and research, to which historians, philosophers and theorists of culture and literature have contributed. The author is a philosopher by training, and his inspiration comes primarily from the continental-phenomenological tradition. Thus the influence of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur can be discerned here. This background opens up a unique perspective on the issues under discussion. Phenomenology differs from other philosophical approaches, like metaphysics and epistemology. Phenomenology asks, of anything that exists or may exist: how is it given, how does it enter our experience, what is our experience of it like? Very broadly we can say: phenomenology is about experience. At first glance, this approach may seem ill-suited to history. In our language, "history" usually means either 1) what happened, i.e. past events, or 2) our knowledge of what happened. We can't experience past events, and whatever knowledge we have of them must come from other sources-memory, testimony, physical traces. But the author maintains that we actually do experience historical events, and these essays explain how this is so. Sitting at the intersection of philosophy and history, and divided into three parts-Historicity, Narrative, and Time, Teleology and History, and Embodiment and Experience-this is the ideal volume for those interested in experience from a philosophical and historical perspective.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 PART 1 Historicity, narrative, and time 9 1 On historicity 11 2 Reflections on temporal perspective: the use and abuse of hindsight 24 3 The stories of our lives: aging and narrative 34 4 On being historical 46 PART 2 Teleology and history 59 5 Teleology and the experience of history 61 6 Husserl and Foucault on the historical a priori: teleological and anti-teleological views of history 75 7 Historical teleology: the grand illusion? 86 8 On the metaphilosophy of history 97 PART 3 Embodiment and experience 113 9 Intersubjectivity and embodiment 115 10 History as orientation: Rusen on historical culture and narration 128 11 Erlebnis and history 144 12 Experience and history 153

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