List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction: How to Understand Historical Thinking
PART I: NARRATION
Chapter 1. Historical Narration: Foundation, Types,
Reason
Chapter 2. Narrative Competence: The Ontogeny of Historical
and Moral Consciousness
Chapter 3. Rhetoric and Aesthetics of History: Leopold von
Ranke
Chapter 4. Narrativity and Objectivity in Historical
Studies
PART II: INTERPRETATION
Chapter 5. What is Historical Theory?
Chapter 6. New History: Paradigms of Interpretation
Chapter 7. Theoretical Approaches to an Intercultural
Comparison of Historiography
Chapter 8. Loosening the Order of History: Modernity,
Postmodernity, Memory
PART III: ORIENTATION
Chapter 9. Historical Thinking as Trauerarbeit:
Burckhardt’s Answer to a Question of our Time
Chapter 10. Historizing Nazi-Time: Metahistorical
Reflections on the Debate Between Friedländer and Broszat
Chapter 11. Holocaust-Memory and German Identity
Bibliography
Index
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.
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