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Author: Zachary S. Schiffman (Chair, Northeastern Illinois University) ,
Anthony T. Grafton (Princeton University)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9781421402789
ISBN 10: 1421402785
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 27 December 2011
Recommended Age: From 17
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
Anyone with an interest in the history of ideas, or the history of historiography for that matter, will find that this books repays close attention. -- Malin Dahlstrom Reviews in History 2012 Thought-provoking. -- Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive 2012 Complex and erudite, confident and controversial -- David Lowenthal Times Literary Supplement
Complex and erudite, confident and controversial. As Schiffman's brilliant argument suggests, anachronism not only helps define the past but becomes its doppelganger. Times Literary Supplement Lively, brilliant, and erudite. [Schiffman's] learned and engaging style [and] fresh, stimulating ideas provide a intellectual feast not only for students of Western civilization, but for those of us seeking to understand other traditions. Essential. Choice This ambitious, lucid book chronicles European methods of imagining and representing the past from the ancient Greeks to the French Enlightenment. Schiffman provides a masterful account of the emergence of modern notions of historical causation that begins with Thucydides and ends more than two thousand years later with Montesquieu and Herder. Sixteenth Century Journal Anyone with an interest in the history of ideas, or the history of historiography for that matter, will find that this books repays close attention. Reviews in History Thought-provoking. History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive This is an important book, and deserves to be widely read. The Sun News Network Schiffman has given us a 'historiographical essay' by his own admission, and an excellent one at that: not the whole truth, but, more valuably, a new foothold for serious engagement. -- Anthony Ossa-Richardson Intellectual History Review It is refreshing to read a book with a clear, even bold, thesis that forces readers to reexamine the authority and applicability of basic historical concepts... The strength of this engaging study is not simply that it historicizes and thus defamiliarizes what passes for common sense in the present but also that it reconstructs what had been regarded as common sense in previous epochs in the Western tradition, from antiquity to the Christian era, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. Journal of Modern History
Anyone with an interest in the history of ideas, or the history of historiography for that matter, will find that this books repays close attention. -- Malin Dahlstrom Reviews in History 2012 Thought-provoking. -- Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive 2012
Anyone with an interest in the history of ideas, or the history of historiography for that matter, will find that this books repays close attention. -- Malin Dahlstrom Reviews in History 2012 Thought-provoking. -- Steve Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive 2012 Complex and erudite, confident and controversial... As Zachary Schiffman's brilliant argument suggests, anacharonism not only helps define the past but becomes its doppelganger. -- David Lowenthal Times Literary Supplement Lively, brilliant, and erudite... His learned and engaging style, and his fresh, stimulating ideas provide a intellectual feast not only for students of Western civilization, but for those of us seeking to understand other traditions... Essential. Choice 2012 This ambitious, lucid book chronicles European methods of imagining and representing the past form the ancient Greeks to the French Enlightenment... Schiffman provides a masterful account of the emergence of modern notions of historical causation that begins with Thucydides... and ends more than two thousand years later with Montesquieu and Herder. -- Jessica Wolfe Sixteenth Century Journal 2012 This is an important book, and deserves to be widely read. -- Clifford Cunningham The Sun News Network 2013 Schiffman has given us a 'historiographical essay' by his own admission, and an excellent one at that: not the whole truth, but, more valuably, a new foothold for serious engagement. -- Anthony Ossa-Richardson Intellectual History Review 2013
Author Information
Zachary Sayre Schiffman is a professor of history at Northeastern Illinois University, author of On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance, and coauthor of Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution, both published by Johns Hopkins, and editor of Humanism and the Renaissance.
