Experience and History : Phenomenological Perspectives on the Historical World

✍ Scribed by Carr, David

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Carr's purpose is to outline a distinctively phenomenological approach to history. History is usually associated with social existence and its past, and thus his inquiry focuses on our experience of the social world and of its temporality. How does history bridge the gap which separates it from its object, the past? Against this background a phenomenological approach, based on the concept of experience, can be proposed as a means of solving this problem, or at least addressing it in a way that takes us beyond the notion of a gap between present and past. Read more...

Abstract:

David Carr outlines a distinctively phenomenological approach to history. Rather than asking what history is or how we know history, a phenomenology of history inquires into history as a phenomenon and into the experience of the historical. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction / Charles Guerin et Sophie Aubert-Baillot --
Premiere partie. Ciceron et l'ecriture de l'histoire : les enjeux historiographiques du Brutus --
La fonction des modeles dans l'articulation chronologique du Brutus / J.-M. David --
L'autobiographie ciceronienne du Brutus (section 304-327) / F. Prost --
Ciceron et l'histoire en 46 avant J-C. Le Brutus : une somme historiographique / M. Ledentu --
Deuxieme partie. Archetypes grecs et eloquence romaine --
Archetypes oratoires et matrices culturelles : le cas de Menelas (Cic., Brut. 50) / M.S. Celentano --
Pericles et les debuts de la rhetorique grecque dans le Brutus / M.-P. Noel --
Demetrios de Phalere dans le Brutus / P. Chiron --
Troisieme partie. Styles et orateurs a Rome --
La rhetorique du Stoicien Rutilius Rufus dans le Brutus / S. Aubert-Baillot Hortensius dans le Brutus : une polemique rhetorique sous forme d'eloge funebre / A. Garcea et V. Lomanto --
Oratorum bonorum duo genera sunt : La definition de l'excellence stylistique et ses consequences theoriques dans le Brutus / C. Guerin --
Quatrieme partie. De la reflexion historique a la defense de la Res publica --
De re publica esset silentium : Pensee politique et histoire de l'eloquence dans le Brutus / M. Jacotot --
Entre prosopographie et politique : la figure et l'ascendance de Brutus dans le Brutus / P.M. Martin.

✦ Subjects

History -- Philosophy. Historiography -- Philosophy. World history -- Philosophy. Social history -- Philosophy. Experience. Phenomenology. Time. HISTORY -- General.