The Limits of HistoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 3 sept. 2013 - 349 pagini History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no opposition or dissent and shelters us from the experience of time. So argues Constantin Fasolt in The Limits of History, an ambitious and pathbreaking study that conquers history's power by carrying the fight into the center of its domain. Fasolt considers the work of Hermann Conring (1606-81) and Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1313/14-57), two antipodes in early modern battles over the principles of European thought and action that ended with the triumph of historical consciousness. Proceeding according to the rules of normal historical analysis—gathering evidence, putting it in context, and analyzing its meaning—Fasolt uncovers limits that no kind of history can cross. He concludes that history is a ritual designed to maintain the modern faith in the autonomy of states and individuals. God wants it, the old crusaders would have said. The truth, Fasolt insists, only begins where that illusion ends. With its probing look at the ideological underpinnings of historical practice, The Limits of History demonstrates that history presupposes highly political assumptions about free will, responsibility, and the relationship between the past and the present. A work of both intellectual history and historiography, it will prove invaluable to students of historical method, philosophy, political theory, and early modern European culture. |
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... chapter I shall focus on that harm. I shall first try to identify some elementary assumptions beneath the form of knowledge we call history. I will then turn to its origins in the disintegration ofmedieval principles ofor— der during ...
... chapter I shall focus on that harm. I shall first try to identify some elementary assumptions beneath the form of knowledge we call history. I will then turn to its origins in the disintegration ofmedieval principles ofor— der during ...
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... for un— certainty. Hence people worry, especially when changes strike them with unpleasant force. Often they look for guidance as to what they should be doing next. Sometimes (strangely enough) they find it in the CHAPTER ONE / 6.
... for un— certainty. Hence people worry, especially when changes strike them with unpleasant force. Often they look for guidance as to what they should be doing next. Sometimes (strangely enough) they find it in the CHAPTER ONE / 6.
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... . Its function is essential for the well—being ofa modern world (any modern world). Its modern occupants could not imagine life if their present were cluttered by the laws ofancient Rome, the science ofAristotle, and CHAPTER ONE / 8.
... . Its function is essential for the well—being ofa modern world (any modern world). Its modern occupants could not imagine life if their present were cluttered by the laws ofancient Rome, the science ofAristotle, and CHAPTER ONE / 8.
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... draw knowledge about the past. But its function as a source is secondary. Its main function is to divide the present from the past. The absence of the signified is what historians seek to comprehend. But absence can CHAPTER ONE / 12.
... draw knowledge about the past. But its function as a source is secondary. Its main function is to divide the present from the past. The absence of the signified is what historians seek to comprehend. But absence can CHAPTER ONE / 12.
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... looks like an act of self—determination by which the sovereign subject assumes her right— ful place in time; the knowledge historians draw from evidence, like the means by which historians make the past lie still; and CHAPTER ONE / 14.
... looks like an act of self—determination by which the sovereign subject assumes her right— ful place in time; the knowledge historians draw from evidence, like the means by which historians make the past lie still; and CHAPTER ONE / 14.
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Hermann Conring | 46 |
Discursus Novus | 92 |
Bartolus of Sassoferrato | 155 |
5 The Limits of History
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Notes | 233 |
Works Cited | 285 |
Index | 317 |
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