Western Historical Thinking: An Intercultural Debate: 1 (Making Sense of History, 1)

ISBN 10: 1571817816 ISBN 13: 9781571817815

Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2002

Synopsis

What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined in contrast to other forms of historical consciousness?

In this volume, Peter Burke, a prominent "Western" historian, offers ten hypotheses that attempt to constitute specifically "Western Historical Thinking." Scholars from Asia and Africa comment on his position in the light of their own ideas of the sense and meaning of historical thinking. The volume is rounded off by Peter Burke's comments on the questions and issues raised by the authors and his suggestions for the way forward towards a common ground for intercultural communication.

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About the Author

Jörn Rüsen was Professor of Modern History at Universities Bochum and Bielefeld for many years. From 1994 to 1997 he was Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld. Since 1997 he has been President of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut). He specialises in theory and methodology of historical sciences, the history of historiography, intercultural aspects of historical thinking, theory of historical learning, and the history of human rights.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571817816
• ISBN 13: 9781571817815
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Rüsen Jörn