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Subject(s)

• History—Philosophy [Browse]

Summary note

This work focuses on the convergence of history, philosophy and social science, tackling a wide range of topics such as truth, objectivity, explanation, communication and narrative, gender, deconstruction, postmodernism, and more. --From publisher's description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The importance and fascination of history
• Philosophical peculiarities of history
• Contemporary neglect of the philosophy of history
• Present state of philosophy of history
• How philosophy of history relates to other disciplines
• Philosophy of history and contemporary concerns
• Future possibilities of the philosophy of history
• Corners
• History and social science : the right-hand side
• Philosophy and social science : the base
• Philosophy and history : the left-hand side
• The problem of objectivity
• Objectivity in history
• Evidence
• Truth
• Social processes and frameworks
• Teleology
• Pattern, structure and colligation
• Causes
• Explanation in general
• Statistical explanation
• Explanation in the social sciences
• Explanation in history
• Science and history
• Structure, time and meaning
• Historicism
• Mind and the historian
• Imagination and understanding
• Action
• Language
• Hermeneutics
• Political correctness
• Communication and culture
• Narrative
• The linguistic turn in history
• The loss of the object
• From the Enlightenment to postmodernity
• An unceasing conversation.

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ISBN

• 0631199411 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 063119939X (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97024619^

OCLC

37155127

RCP

H - S

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