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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... time. That history and politics are somehow linked together is ofcourse a com— monplace. But though the link is familiar, its nature remains obscure. Let me describe two different approaches to the matter that are both INTRODUCTION / XIV.
... time. That history and politics are somehow linked together is ofcourse a com— monplace. But though the link is familiar, its nature remains obscure. Let me describe two different approaches to the matter that are both INTRODUCTION / XIV.
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... nature that has held sway since me— dieval ways of thought and action were shattered in early modern times. This is the View that human beings are free and independent agents with the ability to shape their fate, the obligation to act ...
... nature that has held sway since me— dieval ways of thought and action were shattered in early modern times. This is the View that human beings are free and independent agents with the ability to shape their fate, the obligation to act ...
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... nature. Providence writes no books, custom has no intentions, and nature takes no actions; only human beings do. Providence, custom, and nature are not responsible for the evidence before the historian; human beings are. That is the ...
... nature. Providence writes no books, custom has no intentions, and nature takes no actions; only human beings do. Providence, custom, and nature are not responsible for the evidence before the historian; human beings are. That is the ...
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... nature (for the universe ofphysics) and natural laws (for the universe ofmorals) as further instances of things that are eter— nally the same. Ofcourse such laws are notoriously difficult to establish. But even in a book of history it ...
... nature (for the universe ofphysics) and natural laws (for the universe ofmorals) as further instances of things that are eter— nally the same. Ofcourse such laws are notoriously difficult to establish. But even in a book of history it ...
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... nature. That human being depends for his reality on the distinction between past and present no less than history does. He differs from the past as subjects differ from objects ofagency and knowledge, as reason differs from custom, and ...
... nature. That human being depends for his reality on the distinction between past and present no less than history does. He differs from the past as subjects differ from objects ofagency and knowledge, as reason differs from custom, and ...
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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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