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 xi
... reasons. They helped with knowledge and emotion, money and conversation, criticism and assent. Some even helped by helping not at all. To each and every one of them I gladly offer thanks. I would like to mention some of them by name. To ...
... reasons. They helped with knowledge and emotion, money and conversation, criticism and assent. Some even helped by helping not at all. To each and every one of them I gladly offer thanks. I would like to mention some of them by name. To ...
Pagina xiii
... reasons. The first is merely to make something better known that is not clearly understood. To under— stand it better ... reason is to undo the ties by which history keeps human beings in bondage to themselves. Even ifI can only loosen ...
... reasons. The first is merely to make something better known that is not clearly understood. To under— stand it better ... reason is to undo the ties by which history keeps human beings in bondage to themselves. Even ifI can only loosen ...
Pagina xv
... reasons that have more to do with what they want for themselves than with the truth about the past. The history that results is biased. Since biased history is universally condemned, historians worth their salt make systematic efforts ...
... reasons that have more to do with what they want for themselves than with the truth about the past. The history that results is biased. Since biased history is universally condemned, historians worth their salt make systematic efforts ...
Pagina xvii
... reasons of the sort that explain why it may rain today and shine tomorrow. They are there because someone wrote the ... reason why the letter, the temple, and the song can testify to the conditions ofany particular time and place at all ...
... reasons of the sort that explain why it may rain today and shine tomorrow. They are there because someone wrote the ... reason why the letter, the temple, and the song can testify to the conditions ofany particular time and place at all ...
Pagina 4
... reason— able beyond dispute. Things obviously change. We have experience ofthat. Hence it seems natural to divide the world into things the way they used to be and things as they are now: past and present. This is clearly something more ...
... reason— able beyond dispute. Things obviously change. We have experience ofthat. Hence it seems natural to divide the world into things the way they used to be and things as they are now: past and present. This is clearly something more ...
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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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