Western historical thinking: an intercultural debate /

edited by Rusen, Jorn

Western historical thinking: an intercultural debate / edited by Jorn Rüsen - New York: Berghahn Books, 2002. - xiii, 206 p.; 24 cm.

Chiefly written by members of the Forschungsgruppe Historische Sinnbildung, Universität Bielefeld. Based in part on Westliches Geschichtsdenken (1999).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface to the Series / Introduction: Historical Thinking as Intercultural Discourse / Western Historical Thinking in a Global Perspective - 10 Theses / Perspectives in Historical Anthropology / Searching for Common Principles: A Plea and Some Remarks on the Islamic Tradition / The Coherence of the West / Toward an Archaeology of Historical Thinking / Trauma and Suffering: A Forgotten Source of Western Historical Consciousness / Western Deep Culture and Western Historical Thinking / What is Uniquely Western about the Historiography of the West in Contrast to that of China? / The Westernization of World History / Western Historical Thinking from an Arabian Perspective / Cognitive Historiography and Normative Historiography / Jorn Rusen -- Jorn Rusen -- Peter Burke -- Klaus E. Muller -- Tarif Khalidi -- Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Francois Hartog -- Frank R. Ankersmit -- Johan Galtung -- George G. Iggers -- Hayden White -- Sadik J. Al-Azm -- Masayuki Sato -- Western Uniqueness? Some Counterarguments from an African Perspective / Programs for Historians: A Western Perspective / Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking / Must History Follow Rational Patterns of Interpretation? Critical Questions from a Chinese Perspective / Some Reflections on Early Indian Historical Thinking / Reply / Godfrey Muriuki -- Mamadou Diawara -- Ying-shih Yu -- Thomas H. C. Lee -- Romila Thapar -- Peter Burke.

1571817816 (alk. paper) 157181454X (pbk.)


History--Philosophy.
Civilization, Western.
History--Methodology.
Historiography.


Africa--Civilization--Historiography.
Asia--Civilization--Historiography.

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