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What is The Concept of History : How Ideas Are Constituted, Transmitted and Interpreted about?
The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the modern understanding of history that presents it as universal and teleological, progressively moving forward to an end. Although few contemporary philosophers and historians maintain the view that there is strict universality and teleology in history, the remnants of these positions still affect our understanding of history. But if history is not universal and singular, evolving toward an objective universal end, it should be possible to admit of multiple histories, some of which we appropriate as our own. An another important aspect of this book is that if provides an account of history that is itself both historical and rooted in attempts to narrate and explain history from its inception in antiquity. The book seeks to establish features or constituents of history that might be found in any historical account and might themselves be considered historical invariants in history. ** Review Nikulin's tour de force questions three deeply-held idols in the philosophy of history: 1. that history is purposeful, 2.
Who reads The Concept of History : How Ideas Are Constituted, Transmitted and Interpreted?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dmitri Nikulin
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474269131
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Humanities