Theories and Narratives: Reflections on the Philosophy of HistoryDuke University Press, 1995 - Всего страниц: 252 At a time when philosophy of history is decidedly out of fashion, Theories and Narratives explores the relationship between historical writing and theoretical understanding and seeks to establish the legitimate scope of large-scale theories to grasp historical processes as a whole. Pursuing this objective, Alex Callinicos critically confronts a number of leading attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of history, including Francis Fukuyama's rehabilitation of Hegel's philosophy of history and the postmodernist efforts of Hayden White and others to deny the existence of a past independent of our representations of it. In these cases philosophical arguments are pursued in tandem with discussions of historical interpretations or, respectively, Stalinism and the Holocaust. Leading theories of history--Marx's and Weber's--are then examined in the context of recent work by writers such as Michael Mann, W. G. Runciman, and Robert Brenner Finally, the politics of historical theory is explored in a discussion of Marxism's claims to be a universal theory of human progress. Contradicting current fashion, Callinicos rebuts the claims made by many postmodernists that Marxism is inherently Eurocentric in both its conceptual structures and its political practice. Marx's project of human emancipation, he concludes, still define our political horizons. Theories and Narratives will interest all readers for whom the role of history in the understanding of contemporary civilizations is an essential issue. |
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... attempt , that is , associated above all with Hegel and with the philosophes of the eighteenth - century Enlighten- ment , to arrive at a comprehensive interpretation of the whole course of historical development is very widely ...
... attempt , that is , associated above all with Hegel and with the philosophes of the eighteenth - century Enlighten- ment , to arrive at a comprehensive interpretation of the whole course of historical development is very widely ...
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... attempt to represent reality . This attempt , realized by that very organization , in fact plays a very different role : by depicting , through the device of narrative closure , a world that is whole , historical narrative helps to turn ...
... attempt to represent reality . This attempt , realized by that very organization , in fact plays a very different role : by depicting , through the device of narrative closure , a world that is whole , historical narrative helps to turn ...
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... attempt to increase the productivity of the peasant communities working the land that makes conflict within the lordly class a zero - sum game . Since total output stagnates or grows only very slowly , it is rational for lords seeking ...
... attempt to increase the productivity of the peasant communities working the land that makes conflict within the lordly class a zero - sum game . Since total output stagnates or grows only very slowly , it is rational for lords seeking ...
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HISTORY AS NARRATIVE | 54 |
HISTORY AS THEORY | 110 |
HISTORY AS PROGRESS | 141 |
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