Historics Why History Dominates Contemporary Society

• Main Author: Davies, Martin L (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2006
• Subjects: History > Psychological aspects; History > Philosophy
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From an author at the forefront of research in this area comes this provocative and seminal work that presents a unique and fresh new look at history and theory. Taking a broadly European view, the book draws on works of French and German philosophy, some of which are unknown to the English-speaking...

Table of Contents:

• Getting at what is behind history
• The already historicized world
• The concept of historics
• Historical illusions
• The logic of "sense"
• A sense of history
• Theme
• History and indiscriminate interests
• The cultural politics of distinction
• Historics
• History and sentience
• The organic conception of history
• 'The common denominator of all our sensibilities'
• 'The anguish secreted by human infirmity'
• Comprehension and history
• Apprehension and history
• Historical knowledge: deep time apprehensions
• The 'prosthesis god'
• Neither art nor science
• Historical discourse
• Phantom experiences
• History as a sense-management system
• The faith of fallen Jews
• Homo studiosus
• History as symbolic re-enactment
• Coda