Meaning and representation in history

✍ Scribed by Rüsen, Jörn

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Series: Making sense of history 7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Memory, forgetting, history / Paul Ricoeur -- How meaning came into the world and what became of it / Günter Dux -- Sense of history : what does it mean? : with an outlook onto reason and senselessness / Jörn Rüsen -- "The meaning of history" : a modern construction and notion? / Jörn Stückrath -- The meanings of history : enacting the sociocultural code / Johan Galtung -- The three levels of "sinnbildung" in historical writing / Frank R. Ankersmit -- The reality of history / David Carr -- Language and historical experience / Frank R. Ankersmit -- Flights from history : reinventing tradition between the 18th and 20th centuries / Aleida Assmann -- Memory and identity : how memory is reconstructed after catastrophic events / Alessandro Cavalli -- The material presence of the past : reflections on the visibility of history / Detlef Hoffmann -- Ruins : a visual expression of historical meaning / Moshe Barasch -- Three versions of Wallenstein : differences of meaning production between historiography, biography, and novel / Eberhard Lämmert -- The arts of Jewish memory in a postmodern age / James E. Young.

✦ Table of Contents

Memory, forgetting, history / Paul Ricoeur --
How meaning came into the world and what became of it / Günter Dux --
Sense of history : what does it mean? : with an outlook onto reason and senselessness / Jörn Rüsen --
"The meaning of history" : a modern construction and notion? / Jörn Stückrath --
The meanings of history : enacting the sociocultural code / Johan Galtung --
The three levels of "sinnbildung" in historical writing / Frank R. Ankersmit --
The reality of history / David Carr --
Language and historical experience / Frank R. Ankersmit --
Flights from history : reinventing tradition between the 18th and 20th centuries / Aleida Assmann --
Memory and identity : how memory is reconstructed after catastrophic events / Alessandro Cavalli --
The material presence of the past : reflections on the visibility of history / Detlef Hoffmann --
Ruins : a visual expression of historical meaning / Moshe Barasch --
Three versions of Wallenstein : differences of meaning production between historiography, biography, and novel / Eberhard Lämmert --
The arts of Jewish memory in a postmodern age / James E. Young.

✦ Subjects

Conscience historique;Histoire--Philosophie;Mémoire collective;Philosophie de l'histoire;History--Philosophy;Collective memory;History -- Philosophy;Histoire -- Philosophie;Mémoire collective