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The Limits of History (Hardcover)
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The Limits of History (Hardcover)
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History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or
religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather
flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in
our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no opposition
or dissent and shelters us from the experience of time.
So argues Constantin Fasolt in "The Limits of History," an
ambitious and pathbreaking study that conquers history's power by
carrying the fight into the center of its domain. Fasolt considers
the work of Hermann Conring (1606-81) and Bartolus of Sassoferrato
(1313/14-57), two antipodes in early modern battles over the
principles of European thought and action that ended with the
triumph of historical consciousness. Proceeding according to the
rules of normal historical analysis--gathering evidence, putting it
in context, and analyzing its meaning--Fasolt uncovers limits that
no kind of history can cross. He concludes that history is a ritual
designed to maintain the modern faith in the autonomy of states and
individuals. God wants it, the old crusaders would have said. The
truth, Fasolt insists, only begins where that illusion ends.
With its probing look at the ideological underpinnings of
historical practice, "The Limits of History" demonstrates that
history presupposes highly political assumptions about free will,
responsibility, and the relationship between the past and the
present. A work of both intellectual history and historiography, it
will prove invaluable to students of historical method, philosophy,
political theory, and early modern European culture.
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