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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.

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Author:   Jörn Rüsen
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   v. 7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9781845452629

ISBN 10:   1845452623
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   01 December 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface to the Series Joern Rusen Introduction: What does Making Sense of History mean? Joern Rusen PART I: MEANING Chapter 1. Memory - Forgetting - History Paul Ricoeur Chapter 2. How Meaning Came into the World and What Became of It Gunter Dux Chapter 3. Sense of History: What does it Mean? With an Outlook onto Reason and Senselessness Joern Rusen Chapter 4. The Meaning of History : A Modern Construction and Notion? Joern Stuckrath 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 Lammert Chapter 14. The Arts of Jewish Memory in a Postmodern Age James E. Young Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index of Names

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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.

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