Meaning and representation in history / / edited by Jörn Rüsen
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| Titolo: |
Meaning and representation in history / / edited by Jörn Rüsen
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 901 |
| Soggetto topico: | History - Philosophy |
| Collective memory | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | RüsenJörn |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | part I. Meaning -- part II. Representation. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is memory that links the present to the past and therefore has to be seen as the most fundamental procedure of the human mind that constitutes history: memory and historical thinking are the door of the human mind to experience. At the same time, it t |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Meaning and representation in history |
| ISBN: | 0-85745-555-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814723803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Making sense of history ; ; volume 7.