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The Limits of History
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Constantin Fasolt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our
The Limits of History
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Constantin Fasolt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our
Contingency and the Limits of History
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Liane Carlson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-30 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Central to the historicizing work of recent decades has been the concept of contingency, the realm of chance, change, and the unnecessary. Following Nietzsche a
History at the Limit of World-History
Language: en
Pages: 156
Authors: Ranajit Guha
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-27 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been e
At the Limits of History
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Keith Jenkins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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"Why bother with history? Keith Jenkins has an answer. He helps us re-think the "end of history", as signalled by postmodernity. Readers may disagree with him,