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How History Works The Reconstitution Of A Human Science 1st Edition by Martin L Davies ISBN 9781138932128 1138932124

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Author(s): Martin L. Davies

ISBN(s): 9781138932128, 9781138296251, 9781315672151, 9781317372301, 9781317372318, 1138932124, 1138296252, 1315672154, 1317372301

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 1.08 MB

Year: 2016

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 1138932124
ISBN 13: 9781138932128
Author: Martin L Davies

How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history’s academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing that it is an existential liability: if critical analysis reveals the sense that history offers to the world to be illusory, what stops historical scholarship from becoming a disguise for pessimism or nihilism? History is routinely invoked in all kinds of cultural, political, economic, psychological situations to provide a reliable account or justification of what is happening. Moreover, it addresses a world already receptive to comprehensive historical explanations: since everyone has some knowledge of history, everyone can be manipulated by it. This book analyses the relationship between specialized knowledge and everyday experience, taking phenomenology (Husserl) and pragmatism (James) as methodological guides. It is informed by a wide literature sceptical of the sense academic historical expertise produces and of the work history does, represented by thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Valéry, Anders and Cioran. How History Works discusses how history makes sense of the world even if what happens is senseless, arguing that behind the smoke-screen of historical scholarship looms a chaotic world-dynamic indifferent to human existence. It is valuable reading for anyone interested in historiography and historical theory.

How History Works The Reconstitution Of A Human Science 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 The situation of historical knowledge: the historicized world

A world already shaped by history

A world that has historically superseded itself

The compulsive self-historicization of the world

2 The technology of historical knowledge: management systems

The constitution of academic disciplines

The academic standpoint

Preconditions for the production of historical sense

3 The logic of historical knowledge: causality, rationality, identity

‘Universal idealized causality’

The insufficiency of reason

Identitary thinking

4 The organization of historical knowledge: categorical coordinators; rhetorical strategy

Structures of coherence

Dynamic forces

Stabilizing components

Summary

5 The purpose of historical knowledge: comprehension

Historicization: a ‘natural attitude’

Comprehensive knowledge: institutionalized knowledge

The redundancy of a ‘great truth’

Conclusion: the psychopathology of historicized life

Between aftermath and premonition

‘A world of frightened men’: apprehension

‘Reality precisely reflected’

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