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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Pagina ix
... meaning ofa teXt, you must first put it in the con— teXt ofits time and place; 3. you cannot tell where you are going unless you know where you are coming from. There may be more, but these are fundamental. They seem simple and obvious ...
... meaning ofa teXt, you must first put it in the con— teXt ofits time and place; 3. you cannot tell where you are going unless you know where you are coming from. There may be more, but these are fundamental. They seem simple and obvious ...
Pagina xviii
... meaning and possibility ofliberty, progress, and responsibility. But there may be no other fight in town. Someone must be responsible, and someone must be free. The past, as a familiar saying goes, is a foreign country. Historians ...
... meaning and possibility ofliberty, progress, and responsibility. But there may be no other fight in town. Someone must be responsible, and someone must be free. The past, as a familiar saying goes, is a foreign country. Historians ...
Pagina 7
... meaning solely to contemplation of the past. History is directly and systematically linked to citizenship, sovereignty, and the state. If history is the form in which we contemplate a past that is immutably di— vided from the present ...
... meaning solely to contemplation of the past. History is directly and systematically linked to citizenship, sovereignty, and the state. If history is the form in which we contemplate a past that is immutably di— vided from the present ...
Pagina 9
... meanings in one word is a sign that the subject—the selfthat distinguishes itselffrom the rest ofthe world and is the source ofall distinctions—resides at the center of what we call the modern world. Nor is it an accident that the ...
... meanings in one word is a sign that the subject—the selfthat distinguishes itselffrom the rest ofthe world and is the source ofall distinctions—resides at the center of what we call the modern world. Nor is it an accident that the ...
Pagina 10
... meaning as the wind. Assume that the past is really immutable. How could the present change? How could one part oftime keep passing ifthe other part stood still? Change in the present must surely change the past in ways that we may very ...
... meaning as the wind. Assume that the past is really immutable. How could the present change? How could one part oftime keep passing ifthe other part stood still? Change in the present must surely change the past in ways that we may very ...
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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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