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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... tion.'60 This description may be true of Kojève , but Hegel was concerned rather to find a place for what he ... tion . In this respect , at least , Fukuyama is closer than Kojève to Hegel when he claims that liberal capitalism will ...
... tion.'60 This description may be true of Kojève , but Hegel was concerned rather to find a place for what he ... tion . In this respect , at least , Fukuyama is closer than Kojève to Hegel when he claims that liberal capitalism will ...
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... tion or to explain away the observation : Lakatos notes that scientists as great as Newton have done the latter . He pro- poses , however , that we acknowledge any theoretical adjustments as constituting progress over the previous state ...
... tion or to explain away the observation : Lakatos notes that scientists as great as Newton have done the latter . He pro- poses , however , that we acknowledge any theoretical adjustments as constituting progress over the previous state ...
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... tion has ceased to be a pressing theoretical and political issue . East Asia - the zone of the world economy that has experienced the most dynamic growth since the late 1980s is also the site of a major arms race : countries such as ...
... tion has ceased to be a pressing theoretical and political issue . East Asia - the zone of the world economy that has experienced the most dynamic growth since the late 1980s is also the site of a major arms race : countries such as ...
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HISTORY AS NARRATIVE | 54 |
HISTORY AS THEORY | 110 |
HISTORY AS PROGRESS | 141 |
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