The essays in this collection, by one of the most recognized figures in the field of intellectual history, touch on a wide variety of topics, ranging from the heroism of modern life to the ability of photographs to lie, and explore the fraught connection between the truth of history and the truthfulness of historians.
The essays in this collection, by one of the most recognized figures in the field of intellectual history, touch on a wide variety of topics, ranging from the heroism of modern life to the ability of photographs to lie, and explore the fraught connection between the truth of history and the truthfulness of historians.
Introduction Chapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as Judgment of the Past Chapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of Contextualization Chapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White and Quentin Skinner Chapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century Chapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and Arendt Chapter 6. "Hey! What's the Big Idea?": Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual History Chapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and the Russian Revolution Chapter 8. Can Photographs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial Anxiety Chapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and Photography Chapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization: Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel Chapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians Chapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field? Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free Speech Notes Index Acknowledgments
Introduction Chapter 1. Impudent Claims and Loathsome Questions: Intellectual History as Judgment of the Past Chapter 2. Historical Explanation and the Event: Reflections on the Limits of Contextualization Chapter 3. Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter Between Hayden White and Quentin Skinner Chapter 4. Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the Twentieth Century Chapter 5. Against Rigor: Hans Blumenberg on Freud and Arendt Chapter 6. "Hey! What's the Big Idea?": Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual History Chapter 7. Fidelity to the Event? Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and the Russian Revolution Chapter 8. Can Photographs Lie? Reflections on a Perennial Anxiety Chapter 9. Sublime Historical Experience, Real Presence, and Photography Chapter 10. The Heroism of Modern Life and the Sociology of Modernization: Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel Chapter 11. Historical Truth and the Truthfulness of Historians Chapter 12. Theory and Philosophy: Antonyms in Our Semantic Field? Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Free Speech Notes Index Acknowledgments
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