Agnes Heller

A Theory of History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition. The book examins the norms and methods of historiography from a philosophical point of view, but rejects generalisations tht

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781138638600
• ISBN-10: 1138638609
• Artikelnr.: 52209040

Autorenporträt

Agnes Heller

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Historicity 1. The Stages of Historical Consciousness 2. Present,
Past and Future 3. Everyday Historical consciousness as the Foundation of
Historiorgraphy and the Philosophy of History Part 2: Historiography as
episthémé 4. Introductory Remarks 5. Past, Present and Future in
Historiography 6. Values in Historiography 7. Moral Judgments in
Historiography 8. The Concrete Norms of Historiographical Research 9.
Theory and Method in Historiography 10. The Organizing Principles of
Historiography 11. The Explanatory Principles of Historiography 12. The
Orientative Principles of Historiography 13. The 'Higher' and the Applied
Theory Part 3: Sense and Truth in History or Philosophy of History 14. The
Specificity of Philosophy of History 15. The Notion of Universal
Development as the Basic Category of the Philosophy of History 16.
Universal Historical Laws: Goal, Law and Necessity 17. Holism and
Individualism 18. The Philosophy of History and the Idea of Socialism Part
4: Introduction to a Theory of History 19. History Retrieved? 20. Is
Progress An Illusion? 21. The Need for Utopia 22. Some Remarks About the
Sense of Historical Existence