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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784723203321

Autore

Davies Martin L

Titolo

Historics [[electronic resource] ] : why history dominates contemporary society / / Martin L. Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2006

ISBN

1-134-50677-5

1-281-15768-6

9786611157685

0-203-96421-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Classificazione

15.01

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

History - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-279) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Getting at what is behind history -- The already historicized world -- The concept of historics -- Historical illusions -- The logic of "sense" -- A sense of history -- Theme -- History and indiscriminate interests -- The cultural politics of distinction -- Historics -- History and sentience -- The organic conception of history -- 'The common denominator of all our sensibilities' -- 'The anguish secreted by human infirmity' -- Comprehension and history -- Apprehension and history -- Historical knowledge -- The 'prosthesis god' -- Neither art nor science -- Historical discourse -- Phantom experiences -- History as a sense-management system -- The faith of fallen Jews -- Homo studiosus -- History as symbolic re-enactment -- Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

From an author at the forefront of research in this area comes this provocative and seminal work that presents a unique and fresh new look at history and theory.Taking a broadly European view, the book draws on works of French and German philosophy, some of which are unknown to the English-speaking world, and Martin L. Davies spells out what it is like to live in a historicized world, where any event is presented as historical as, or even before, it happens.Challenging basic assumptions made by historians, Davies focuses on historical ideas and



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