Meaning and Representation in History
Jörn Rüsen (Ed.)
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Paperback. History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. Editor(s): Rusen, Jorn. Series: Making Sense of History. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA; HP; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is memory that links the present to the past and therefore has to be seen as the most fundamental procedure of the human mind that constitutes history: memory and historical thinking are the door of the human mind to experience. At the ... Read more
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Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Making Sense of History
Condition
New
Weight
401g
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845452629
SKU
V9781845452629
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99-15
About Jörn Rüsen (Ed.)
Jörn Rüsen was Professor of Modern History at the Universities of Bochum and Bielefeld for many years. From 1994 to 1997 he was the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF). Since 1997 he has been President of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen.
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