The Crisis from Within : Historians, Theory, and the Humanities.
Title:
The Crisis from Within : Historians, Theory, and the Humanities.
Author:
Raab, Nigel.
ISBN:
9789004292727
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Historical Origins of the Interdisciplinary Approach -- Chapter 2 -- Historians and Their Own Models -- Chapter 3 -- Knowledge and Its Theoretical Place in a Historical Discussion -- Chapter 4 -- Discourse as Another Form of Knowledge -- Chapter 5 -- Memory and History -- Chapter 6 -- Imagining the Subjective and Inventing the Objective -- Chapter 7 -- Civil Society and the Historian -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
In The Crisis from Within, Nigel Raab examines analytic problems which emerge when philosophical and literary theories are introduced in historical analysis. By drawing from a vast range of historical works, it highlights dangers inherent to using theory.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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