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Western historical thinking: an intercultural debate

Rüsen, Jörn.

Year: c2002.

Publisher: Berghahn Books.

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Frontmatter

Preface to the Series

Introduction: Historical Thinking as Intercultural Discourse

I: Theses

Western Historical Thinking in a Global Perspective - 10 Theses

II: Comments

1. General Comments

Perspectives in Historical Anthropology

Searching for Common Principles: A Plea and Some Remarks on the Islamic Tradition

The Coherence of the West

2. The Peculiarity of the West

Toward an Archaeology of Historical Thinking

Trauma and Suffering: A Forgotten Source of Western Historical Consciousness

Western Deep Culture and Western Historical Thinking

What is Uniquely Western about the Historiography of the West in Contrast to that of China?

The Westernization of World History

3. The Perspective of Others

Western Historical Thinking from an Arabian Perspective

Cognitive Historiography and Normative Historiography

Western Uniqueness? Some Counterarguments from an Africa Perspective

Programs for Historians: A Western Perspective

4. The Difference of the Others

Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking

Must History Follow Rational Patterns of Interpretation? Critical Questions from a Chinese Perspective

Some Reflections on Early Indian Historical Thinking

III: Afterword

Notes on Contributors

Index

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Title:

Western historical thinking : an intercultural debate edited by Jörn Rüsen.

Author:

Rüsen, Jörn

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2008
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Western historical thinking : an intercultural debate edited by Jörn Rüsen.
Rüsen, Jörn
New York: Berghahn Books, c2002.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04917

Subject Headings:

• History -- Philosophy
• Civilization, Western
• Historiography
• History -- Methodology
• Africa -- Civilization -- Historiography
• Asia -- Civilization -- Historiography

Notes:

• Chiefly written by members of the Forschungsgruppe Historische Sinnbildung, Universität Bielefeld.
• Based in part on Westliches Geschichtsdenken (1999).
• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required

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