Meaning and Representation in History

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-262-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is memory that links the present to the past and therefore has to be seen as the most fundamental procedure of the human mind that constitutes history: memory and historical thinking are the door of the human mind to experience. At the same time, it transforms the past into a meaningful and sense bearing part of the present and beyond. It is these complex interrelationships that are the focus of the contributors to this volume, among them such distinguished scholars as Paul Ricoeur, Johan Galtung, Eberhard Lämmert, and James E. Young. Full of profound insights into human society pat and present it is a book that not only historians but also philosophers and social scientists should engage with.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rüsen, Jörn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface to the Series

Jörn Rüsen

Introduction: What  does "Making Sense of History" mean?

Jörn Rüsen

PART I: MEANING

Chapter 1. Memory - Forgetting - History

Paul Ricoeur

Chapter 2. How Meaning Came into the World and What Became of It

Günter Dux

Chapter 3. Sense of History: What does it Mean? With an Outlook onto Reason and Senselessness

Jörn Rüsen

Chapter 4. "The Meaning of History": A Modern Construction and Notion?

Jörn Stückrath

Chapter 5. The Meaning of History: Enacting Sociocultural Code

Johan Galtung

Chapter 6. The Three Levels of "Sinnbildung" in Historical Writing

Frank R. Ankersmit

Chapter 7. The Reality of History

David Carr

Chapter 8. Language and Historical Experience

Frank R. Ankdersmit

PART II: REPRESENTATION

Chapter 9. Flights from History: Reinventing Tradition between the 18th and 19th Centuries

Aleida Assmann

Chapter 10. Memory and Identity: How Memory is Reconstructed after Catastrophic Events

Alessandro Cavalli

Chapter 11. The Material Presence of the Past: Reflections on the Visibility of History

Detlef Hoffmann

Chapter 12. Ruins: A Visual Expression of Historical Meaning

Moshe Barasch

Chapter 13. Three Versions of Wallentstein: Differences of Meaning Production between Historiography, Biography, and Novel

Eberhard Lämmert

Chapter 14. The Arts of Jewish Memory in a Postmodern Age

James E. Young

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Rüsen, Jörn
Jörn Rüsen was Professor of Modern History at the Universities of Bochum and Bielefeld for many years. From 1994 to 1997 he was the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF). Since 1997 he has been President of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen.

Jörn Rüsen was Professor of Modern History at the Universities of Bochum and Bielefeld for many years. From 1994 to 1997 he was the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF). Since 1997 he has been President of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen.