Full History

Full History

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Smith Steven G.
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
EAN: 9781474260329
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How can we take history seriously as real and relevant? Despite the hazards of politically dangerous or misleading accounts of the past, we live our lives in a great network of cooperation with other actors; past, present, and future. We study and reflect on the past as a way of exercising a responsibility for shared action. In each of the chapters of Full History Smith poses a key question about history as a concern for conscious participants in the sharing of action, starting with “What Is Historical Meaningfulness?” and ending with “How Can History Have an Aim?” Constructing new models of historical meaning while engaging critically with perspectives offered by Ranke, Dilthey, Rickert, Heidegger, Eliade, Sartre, Foucault, and Arendt, Smith develops a philosophical account of thinking about history that moves beyond postmodernist skepticism. Full History seeks to expand the cast of significant actors, establishing an inclusive version of the historical that recognizes large-scale cumulative actions but also encourages critical revision and expansion of any paradigm of shared action.
EAN 9781474260329
ISBN 1474260322
Binding Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date December 15, 2016
Pages 264
Language English
Dimensions 234 x 156
Country United Kingdom
Readership Tertiary Education
Authors Smith Steven G.