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Thinking Europe
A History of the European Idea since 1800
Av MATS ANDRÉN
Häftad, 2024
229 kr
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Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of …
Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning
An Emblematic 20th-Century Life
Häftad, 2020
339 kr
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★“[T]his is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and historians will be grateful.”—Library Journal, starred reviewFirst published in 1946, Viktor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books …
Cultural Borders of Europe
Narratives, Concepts and Practices in the Present and the Past
Av Mats Andrén, Thomas Lindkvist m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
479 kr
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The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well …
Territory, State and Nation
The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellén
Av Ragnar Björk, Thomas Lundén
Inbunden, 2021
1979 kr
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Rudolf Kjellén, regularly referred to as “the father of geopolitics,” developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the capabilities of great-power states and promoting their interests in the international arena. It was an ambitious intellectual project …
Narrating the Nation
Representations in History, Media and the Arts
Av Stefan Berger, Linas Eriksonas m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
543 kr
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"...an important, indeed significant, collection of essays that examine the historiography of presenting 'nationhood.' There is a shared point of view in the historiographical perspectives of the contributors that warrants the collection being considered as a 'transitional formulation' in Jaspers's …
Lover's Quarrel with the Past
Romance, Representation, Reading
Av Ranjan Ghosh
Inbunden, 2012
1979 kr
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Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today.Qualifying the "non-historian" as an "able" interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological …
Holocaust and Historical Methodology
Av Dan Stone
Inbunden, 2012
1979 kr
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In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as …
Thinking Utopia
Steps into Other Worlds
Av Jörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1702 kr
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After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political …
Western Historical Thinking
An Intercultural Debate
Av Jörn Rüsen
Häftad, 2002
526 kr
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What is history – a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined in contrast to other forms of historical …
Identities
Time, Difference and Boundaries
Inbunden, 2002
1880 kr
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"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to …
Identities
Time, Difference and Boundaries
Häftad, 2003
527 kr
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"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to …
History
Narration, Interpretation, Orientation
Av Jörn Rüsen
Inbunden, 2005
1979 kr
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Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of …
Meaning and Representation in History
Av Jörn Rüsen
Inbunden, 2006
1979 kr
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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 …
Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness
Inbunden, 2005
1916 kr
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A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our intensified experience of contingency and difference, has until now remained largely outside psychology’s purview. Wherever questions about the development, structure, and …
Western Historical Thinking
An Intercultural Debate
Av Jörn Rüsen
Inbunden, 2002
1979 kr
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What is history – a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined in contrast to other forms of historical …
Historical Memory in Africa
Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context
Av Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
532 kr
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A vast amount of literature-both scholarly and popular-now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and …
What is History For?
Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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"There is a great deal to admire about this study. The author is extraordinarily erudite: not only has he read carefully all of Droysen's work and mastered the secondary literature about him, he moves with ease across centuries of historiography...I learned a lot from the study about both Droysen …
Vanished History
The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture
Inbunden, 2014
1916 kr
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Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler’s Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic …
Jewish Histories of the Holocaust
New Transnational Approaches
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. …
Helmut Kohl's Quest for Normality
His Representation of the German Nation and Himself
Inbunden, 2015
1916 kr
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During his political career, Helmut Kohl used his own life story to promote a normalization of German nationalism and to overcome the stigma of the Nazi period. In the context of the cold war and the memory of the fascist past, he was able to exploit the combination of his religious, generational, …
Marking Evil
Holocaust Memory in the Global Age
Inbunden, 2015
2186 kr
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Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization. This volume addresses manifestations of …
Holocaust and Historical Methodology
Av Dan Stone
Häftad, 2014
543 kr
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In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as …
Rhythm of Eternity
The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933
Inbunden, 2015
1916 kr
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The Weimar era in Germany is often characterized as a time of significant change. Such periods of rupture transform the way people envision the past, present, and future. This book traces the conceptions of time and history in the Germany of the early 20th century. By focusing on both the discourse …
Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning
An Emblematic 20th-Century Life
Inbunden, 2015
1996 kr
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Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. This book is an intellectual biography of Frankl, describing his early immersion in Freudianism, his connection to Alfred Adler, and the development of …
Designing Worlds
National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization
Av Kjetil Fallan, Grace Lees-Maffei
Inbunden, 2016
1357 kr
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From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but …
Divining History
Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit
Inbunden, 2016
495 kr
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For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in equal parts by theology and historical …
Sensitive Pasts
Questioning Heritage in Education
Av Carla van Boxtel, Maria Grever m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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Heritage, as an area of research and learning, often deals with difficult historical questions, due to the strong emotions and political commitments that are often at stake. In this, it poses particular challenges for teachers, museum educators and the publics they serve. Guided by a shared focus …
What Is History For?
Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography
Häftad, 2016
543 kr
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A scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice. Arthur Alfaix Assis interprets …
Jewish Histories of the Holocaust
New Transnational Approaches
Häftad, 2016
467 kr
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For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experiences of victims and survivors, as well as the documents they left behind. This volume contains new research from internationally established scholars. …
Vanished History
The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture
Häftad, 2017
467 kr
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Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler’s Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic …
