The Muse of History and the Science of Culture

Robert L. Carneiro (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

307 Seiten

2000
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-46273-3 (ISBN)

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Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'? In short, can a substantial and coherent philosophy of history be devised that offers answers to these questions? These issues, which have intrigued -and bedeviled - historians for centuries, are explored in this thoughtful book.

Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'? Does it have a pattern? Is it fraught with `meaning'? Can we discern its trends? What determines its course? In short, can a substantial and coherent philosophy of history be devised that offers answers to these questions? These issues, which have intrigued -and bedeviled - historians for centuries, are explored in this thoughtful book.

The Philosophy of History.- The Changing Faces of History.- The Thorny Thickets of History.- What Drives the Engine of History?.- The Great Man and Ideas as Prime Movers.- How to Turn History into Science.- The Culture Process and Its Determinants.- Are There Laws of History?.- Proposed Laws of Culture.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2000
Zusatzinfo	XI, 307 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-306-46273-7 / 0306462737
ISBN-13	978-0-306-46273-3 / 9780306462733
Zustand	Neuware