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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... history was a challenge thrown in the face of tradition and authority, an undertaking full of doubt and danger, a ... the historical machine. The machine has grown so unwieldy that merely to prevent its creaking gears from grinding to ...
... history was a challenge thrown in the face of tradition and authority, an undertaking full of doubt and danger, a ... the historical machine. The machine has grown so unwieldy that merely to prevent its creaking gears from grinding to ...
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... of history may seem improbable so long as attention is focused solely on history in the sense ofknowledge ofthe past. For history in that sense consists ofexplanations ofu/hy human beings behaved like this or that. In that sense history ...
... of history may seem improbable so long as attention is focused solely on history in the sense ofknowledge ofthe past. For history in that sense consists ofexplanations ofu/hy human beings behaved like this or that. In that sense history ...
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... with historical consciousness as such and ask why history ought to be believed if even history without bias is merely politics under a differ— ent name. That question threatens the possibility ofknowing anything about the past at all ...
... with historical consciousness as such and ask why history ought to be believed if even history without bias is merely politics under a differ— ent name. That question threatens the possibility ofknowing anything about the past at all ...
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... of history. From Vico's New Science down to the most recent issue of History and Theory, historians and theorists of his— tory have looked at the standing of history in the realm of knowledge and its relationship not only to politics ...
... of history. From Vico's New Science down to the most recent issue of History and Theory, historians and theorists of his— tory have looked at the standing of history in the realm of knowledge and its relationship not only to politics ...
Pagina xxi
... of history lies a political commitment, then the attempt to gain a theoretical perspective on history can only result in tautology or absurdity. Tautology, because the the— ory ofhistory must presuppose the very commitment it wishes to ...
... of history lies a political commitment, then the attempt to gain a theoretical perspective on history can only result in tautology or absurdity. Tautology, because the the— ory ofhistory must presuppose the very commitment it wishes to ...
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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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