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 xiii
... merely to make something better known that is not clearly understood. To under— stand it better will entail a certain intellectual advance. If that is all I can ac— complish with this book, I shall be satisfied. The second reason is to ...
... merely to make something better known that is not clearly understood. To under— stand it better will entail a certain intellectual advance. If that is all I can ac— complish with this book, I shall be satisfied. The second reason is to ...
Pagina xiv
... merely considered part ofa liberal education, but one that actually fostered liberty. In those days history was the stuff of revolution. That time is gone. There is nothing revolutionary about history today, and it has very little to do ...
... merely considered part ofa liberal education, but one that actually fostered liberty. In those days history was the stuff of revolution. That time is gone. There is nothing revolutionary about history today, and it has very little to do ...
Pagina xvi
... mere animal instinct or do battle with the devil. They are in charge of their own affairs. Of course their freedom is admittedly limited by laws of physics and the particular circumstances of their time and place—those circumstances ...
... mere animal instinct or do battle with the devil. They are in charge of their own affairs. Of course their freedom is admittedly limited by laws of physics and the particular circumstances of their time and place—those circumstances ...
Pagina xviii
... mere figure ofspeech. It is a perfectly accurate description of history's political effect. All of this, as I have said, is relatively easy to point out in the abstract. But as soon as one attempts to state it in detail, a host of ...
... mere figure ofspeech. It is a perfectly accurate description of history's political effect. All of this, as I have said, is relatively easy to point out in the abstract. But as soon as one attempts to state it in detail, a host of ...
Pagina xix
... merely an ideal. Politics inevitably enters into the prac— tice of the craft. History is always biased in some way. That much will be conceded. But to acknowledge bias is not to welcome it, much less to assert that history essentially ...
... merely an ideal. Politics inevitably enters into the prac— tice of the craft. History is always biased in some way. That much will be conceded. But to acknowledge bias is not to welcome it, much less to assert that history essentially ...
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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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