Historical Imagination: Hermeneutics and Cultural Narrative

by Paul Fairfield

Historical Imagination defends a phenomenological and hermeneutical account of historical knowledge. The book's central questions are what is historical imagination, what is the relation between the imaginative and the empirical, in what sense is historical knowledge always already imaginative, how does such knowledge serve us, and what is the relation of historical understanding and self-understanding? Paul Fairfield revisits some familiar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538156555
• ISBN13: 9781538156551
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"