History: Narration, Interpretation, Orientation

by J Rusen and Jörn Rüsen

Without denying the importance of the postmodernist approach to the narrative form and rhetorical strategies of historiography, the author, one of Germany's most prominent cultural historians, argues here in favor of reason and methodical rationality in history. He presents a broad variety of aspects, factors and developments of historical thinking from the 18th century to the present, thus continuing, in exemplary fashion, the tradition of critical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571816240
• ISBN13: 9781571816245
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"