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History and Human Flourishing (Paperback)
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History and Human Flourishing (Paperback)
Series: The Humanities and Human Flourishing
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The Humanities and Human Flourishing series publishes edited
volumes that explore the role of human flourishing in the central
disciplines of the humanities, and to what degree the humanities
can increase human happiness. This volume examines the relationship
between history and human flourishing and, more broadly,
investigates the ways in which the arts and humanities are related
to human well-being. The essays here represent the efforts of a
varied and distinguished group of professional historians to
consider a deceptively simple question: what is the value of
history for life? Each author asks in what ways historians, their
work, and the objects of their inquiry might contribute to human
well-being and how they might be encouraged to do so. History, in
this volume, refers not just to the past writ large, but also to
the discipline and practice of historical inquiry, along with the
production and consumption of works of historical representation.
Thinking of history in these ways, the contributors address a wide
variety of subjects in connection to issues of well-being,
considering history across time and place as a vocation, a source
of the sublime, a site of play, and a repository of meaning with
surprising analogues to religious experience. Overall, History and
Human Flourishing uses personal experience, insight into the
professional and scholarly world of historians, and a variety of
historical periods and approaches to highlight the value of
studying history in discussions of human flourishing. The essays in
this volume identify history and the historical craft as tremendous
potential resources for human well-being and of vital importance
for our times.
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