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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... Hermann Conring 46 THREE The Context: Discursus Novus 92 F O U R The Text: Bartolus OfSassoferrato 155 F I V E The Limits ofHistory 219 Notes 233 Works Cited 285 Index 317 Preface Our attitude toward the past is governed by three Contents.
... Hermann Conring 46 THREE The Context: Discursus Novus 92 F O U R The Text: Bartolus OfSassoferrato 155 F I V E The Limits ofHistory 219 Notes 233 Works Cited 285 Index 317 Preface Our attitude toward the past is governed by three Contents.
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... context ofits time. This keeps historians from committing anachronism. It places the past under a great taboo in order to prevent a kind of chronological pollution. No one who violates that great taboo may claim to be a true historian ...
... context ofits time. This keeps historians from committing anachronism. It places the past under a great taboo in order to prevent a kind of chronological pollution. No one who violates that great taboo may claim to be a true historian ...
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... context ofits time? Which context would that be? Did things get lost on cross—temporal excursions? Do they confuse the tenses? Do they require our help to find their place oforigin? How could we help them ifthey did? There is no uni ...
... context ofits time? Which context would that be? Did things get lost on cross—temporal excursions? Do they confuse the tenses? Do they require our help to find their place oforigin? How could we help them ifthey did? There is no uni ...
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... context of“their” time and place. The Other Side of History Should we conclude that history is nothing but a useless waste of time? Not in the least! We rather need to recognize that knowledge of the past is merely the fruit of history ...
... context of“their” time and place. The Other Side of History Should we conclude that history is nothing but a useless waste of time? Not in the least! We rather need to recognize that knowledge of the past is merely the fruit of history ...
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Hermann Conring | 46 |
Discursus Novus | 92 |
Bartolus of Sassoferrato | 155 |
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Notes | 233 |
Works Cited | 285 |
Index | 317 |
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