Author: José Ortega y GassetPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393054781
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An Interpretation of Universal History
Author: José Ortega y GassetPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393054781
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An Interpretation of Universal History
Author: José Ortega y GassetPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393007510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Ortega traces the course of Western civilization backward, searching out what makes a civilization rise or fall and offering a way of looking at our own time. Based on a series of lectures on A. J. Toynbee's A Study of History.
The Social Thought of Ortega Y Gasset
Author: John T. GrahamPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826262868
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
Author: Susan F. Buck-MorssPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973340
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a "new humanism," one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity.
The Universal History of Stepʻanos Tarōnecʻi
Author: Tim GreenwoodPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192511068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The Universal History (Patmutʻiwn tiezerakan) of Stepʻanos Tarōnecʻi is a history of the world in three books, composed by the Armenian scholar at the end of the tenth century and extending from the era of Abraham to the turn of the first millennium. It was completed in 1004/5 CE, at a time when the Byzantine Empire was expanding eastwards across the districts of historic Armenia and challenging key aspects of Armenian identity. Stepʻanos responded to these changing circumstances by looking to the past and fusing Armenian tradition with Persian, Roman, and Islamic history, thereby asserting that Armenia had a prominent and independent place in world history. The Universal History was intended to affirm and reinforce Armenian cultural memory. As well as assembling and revising extracts from existing Armenian texts, Stepʻanos also visited monastic communities where he learned about prominent Armenian scholars and ascetics who feature in his construction of the Armenian past. During his travels he gathered stories about local Armenian, Georgian, Persian, and Kurdish lords, which were then repeated in his composition. The Universal History therefore preserves a valuable narrative of events in Byzantium, Armenia, and the wider Middle East in the second half of the tenth century. This volume presents the first ever English translation of this work, drawing upon Manukyan's 2012 critical edition of the text, and is also the first study and translation of the Universal History to be published outside Armenia for a century. Fully annotated and with a substantial introduction, it not only provides an accessible guide to the text, drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship available, but also offers valuable new insights into the significance of an often overlooked work, the intellectual and literary contexts within which it was composed, and its place in the Armenian tradition.
A Universal History of Infamy
Author: Jorge Luis BorgesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140180336
Category : Spanish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Big Ideas
Author: Cameron GibelyouPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190201210
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
"A higher education history textbook that covers the history of the universe, Earth, life, and humanity as a single unified whole, integrating knowledge from across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities"--
Gadamer and the Transmission of History
Author: Jerome VeithPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253016045
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Observing that humans often deal with the past in problematic ways, Jerome Veith looks to philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer and his hermeneutics to clarify these conceptions of history and to present ways to come to terms with them. Veith fully engages Truth and Method as well as Gadamer's entire work and relationships with other German philosophers, especially Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger in this endeavor. Veith considers questions about language, ethics, cosmopolitanism, patriotism, self-identity, and the status of the humanities in the academy in this very readable application of Gadamer's philosophical practice.
History and Truth
Author: Paul RicœurPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810105980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Incredible originality of thought in areas as vast as phenomenology, religion, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, intersubjectivity, language, Marxism, and structuralism has made Paul Ricoeur one of the philosophical giants of the twentieth century. The way in which Ricoeur approaches these themes makes his works relevant to the reader today: he writes with honesty and depth of insight into the core of a problem, and his ability to mark for future thought the very path of philosophical inquiry is nearly unmatched. In History and Truth, Ricoeur investigates the antinomy between history and truth, or between historicity and meaning. He argues that history has meaning insofar as it approaches universality and system but no meaning insofar as this universality violates the singularity of individuals' lives. Imposing unity upon truth, or unifying the diversity of knowledge and opinion, creates a singular and universal history but destroys historicity and subjectivity. Allowing for singularities in history promotes a multiplicity of truths over a single, unique truth and thereby annihilates system. This volume and the other new editions of Ricoeur's texts published by Northwestern University Press have joined the canon of contemporary continental philosophy and continue to contribute to emergent discussions in the twenty-first century. Book jacket.
The Philosophy of History
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description