Books+ Search Results
Historics why history dominates contemporary society
Author
Title
Historics [electronic resource] : why history dominates contemporary society / Martin L. Davies.
ISBN
0415261651 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415261654 (hardback : alk. paper)
041526166X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415261661 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415361654
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Physical Description
viii, 287 p.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-279) and index.
Contents
Getting at what is behind history
The already historicized world
The concept of historics
Historical illusions
The logic of "sense"
A sense of history
Theme
History and indiscriminate interests
The cultural politics of distinction
Historics
History and sentience
The organic conception of history
'The common denominator of all our sensibilities'
'The anguish secreted by human infirmity'
Comprehension and history
Apprehension and history
Historical knowledge
The 'prosthesis god'
Neither art nor science
Historical discourse
Phantom experiences
History as a sense-management system
The faith of fallen Jews
Homo studiosus
History as symbolic re-enactment
Coda.
Subjects
Also listed under
ebrary, Inc.
Bookmark As
Citation
