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.

• List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: How to Understand Historical ThinkingPART I: NARRATIONChapter 1. Historical Narration: Foundation, Types, ReasonChapter 2. Narrative Competence: The Ontogeny of Historical and Moral ConsciousnessChapter 3. Rhetoric and Aesthetics of History: Leopold von RankeChapter 4. Narrativity and Objectivity in Historical StudiesPART II: INTERPRETATIONChapter 5. What is Historical Theory?Chapter 6. New History: Paradigms of InterpretationChapter 7. Theoretical Approaches to an Intercultural Comparison of HistoriographyChapter 8. Loosening the Order of History: Modernity, Postmodernity, MemoryPART III: ORIENTATIONChapter 9. Historical Thinking as Trauerarbeit: Burckhardt’s Answer to a Question of our TimeChapter 10. Historizing Nazi-Time: Metahistorical Reflections on the Debate Between Friedländer and BroszatChapter 11. Holocaust-Memory and German IdentityBibliographyIndex

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.

• List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: How to Understand Historical ThinkingPART I: NARRATIONChapter 1. Historical Narration: Foundation, Types, ReasonChapter 2. Narrative Competence: The Ontogeny of Historical and Moral ConsciousnessChapter 3. Rhetoric and Aesthetics of History: Leopold von RankeChapter 4. Narrativity and Objectivity in Historical StudiesPART II: INTERPRETATIONChapter 5. What is Historical Theory?Chapter 6. New History: Paradigms of InterpretationChapter 7. Theoretical Approaches to an Intercultural Comparison of HistoriographyChapter 8. Loosening the Order of History: Modernity, Postmodernity, MemoryPART III: ORIENTATIONChapter 9. Historical Thinking as Trauerarbeit: Burckhardt’s Answer to a Question of our TimeChapter 10. Historizing Nazi-Time: Metahistorical Reflections on the Debate Between Friedländer and BroszatChapter 11. Holocaust-Memory and German IdentityBibliographyIndex

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.

• List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: How to Understand Historical ThinkingPART I: NARRATIONChapter 1. Historical Narration: Foundation, Types, ReasonChapter 2. Narrative Competence: The Ontogeny of Historical and Moral ConsciousnessChapter 3. Rhetoric and Aesthetics of History: Leopold von RankeChapter 4. Narrativity and Objectivity in Historical StudiesPART II: INTERPRETATIONChapter 5. What is Historical Theory?Chapter 6. New History: Paradigms of InterpretationChapter 7. Theoretical Approaches to an Intercultural Comparison of HistoriographyChapter 8. Loosening the Order of History: Modernity, Postmodernity, MemoryPART III: ORIENTATIONChapter 9. Historical Thinking as Trauerarbeit: Burckhardt’s Answer to a Question of our TimeChapter 10. Historizing Nazi-Time: Metahistorical Reflections on the Debate Between Friedländer and BroszatChapter 11. Holocaust-Memory and German IdentityBibliographyIndex