Historical Imagination
Hermeneutics and Cultural Narrative
Seiten
2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5653-7 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5653-7 (ISBN)
This book is a phenomenological and hermeneutical investigation into the nature of historical imagination. Carefully defining historical imagination, the book probes the relationship between the imaginative and the empirical, as well as the relationship between historical understanding and self-understanding
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 hermeneutical themes and endeavors to develop these further while examining two important periods in which historical reassessments or re-imaginings of the past occurred on a large scale. The conception of historical imagination that emerges seeks to advance beyond the debate between empiricists and postmodern constructivists while focusing on narrative as well as a more encompassing interpretation of who an historical people were, how things stood with them, and how this comes to be known. Fairfield supplements the philosophical argument with an historical examination of how and why during late antiquity, early Christian thinkers began to reimagine their Greek and Roman past, followed by how and why renaissance and later enlightenment figures reimagined their ancient and medieval past.
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 hermeneutical themes and endeavors to develop these further while examining two important periods in which historical reassessments or re-imaginings of the past occurred on a large scale. The conception of historical imagination that emerges seeks to advance beyond the debate between empiricists and postmodern constructivists while focusing on narrative as well as a more encompassing interpretation of who an historical people were, how things stood with them, and how this comes to be known. Fairfield supplements the philosophical argument with an historical examination of how and why during late antiquity, early Christian thinkers began to reimagine their Greek and Roman past, followed by how and why renaissance and later enlightenment figures reimagined their ancient and medieval past.
Paul Fairfield is professor of philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. He has authored, edited, or coedited numerous books in different areas of hermeneutics and phenomenology. His most recent book is Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change (2020).
Introduction: Changing the Record
Chapter 1: Historical Imagination I: Interpretation, Narrative, Constructivism
Chapter 2: Historical Imagination II: Evidence and Intentionality
Chapter 3: Early Christian Reimaginings
Chapter 4: Renaissance Reimaginings
Chapter 5: Enlightenment Reimaginings
Chapter 6: Historical Imagination and Cultural Studies
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.06.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-5653-9 / 1538156539 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-5653-7 / 9781538156537 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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