The Routledge companion to historical theory
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The Routledge companion to historical theory
（Routledge companions）
Routledge, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to that offers the reader both historical and systematic treatments of these issues, as well as addressing their contemporary relevance.
Written by an international team of experts who both discuss the basis of their topic and also present their own view, thereby offering the reader a cutting-edge contribution while ensuring their chapters are of interest to both to students and specialists in the field of historical theory.
An indispensible companion to the study of history that provides essential reading for anyone interested in the reflection on the nature of history and our historical existence.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Modes and Schools of Historical Thought 1. Historicism 2. Hermeneutics 3. Marxism 4. Idealism: With History in Mind 5. Positivism 6. Phenomenology 7. Critical Theory 8. Narrativism 9. Pragmatism 10. Analytical Philosophy of History 11. Postcolonial Theory: Then and Now 12. Psychoanalysis Part 2: Epistemology and Metaphysics of History 13. Contingency and Historical Inevitability 14. Imagination and Revision 15. Objectivity and Relativism 16. Constructivism and Realism 17. Explanation 18. Interpretation 19. Representation 20. Truth: What is it for? 21. Postmodernism: The "Crisis" of Narratives in the Historical Discipline 22. Ethics: Or Sharing History 23. Deconstruction: History, if there is History 24. Freedom and Agency Part 3: Issues and Challenges in Historical Theory 25. Political Ideologies 26. Didactics 27. Big data 28. New Television and Film 29. Counterfactuals: A Typological Approach 30. Globalisation/s 31. Teleology 32. The Sublime 33. Experience 34. Memory 35. Time 36. Presence 37. The End of History
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