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Historical Experience - Essays on the Phenomenology of History (Hardcover)
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Historical Experience - Essays on the Phenomenology of History (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
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This volume brings together a collection of recent essays on the
philosophy and theory of history. This is a field of lively
interdisciplinary discussion and research, to which historians,
philosophers and theorists of culture and literature have
contributed. The author is a philosopher by training, and his
inspiration comes primarily from the continental-phenomenological
tradition. Thus the influence of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty
and Ricoeur can be discerned here. This background opens up a
unique perspective on the issues under discussion. Phenomenology
differs from other philosophical approaches, like metaphysics and
epistemology. Phenomenology asks, of anything that exists or may
exist: how is it given, how does it enter our experience, what is
our experience of it like? Very broadly we can say: phenomenology
is about experience. At first glance, this approach may seem
ill-suited to history. In our language, "history" usually means
either 1) what happened, i.e. past events, or 2) our knowledge of
what happened. We can't experience past events, and whatever
knowledge we have of them must come from other sources-memory,
testimony, physical traces. But the author maintains that we
actually do experience historical events, and these essays explain
how this is so. Sitting at the intersection of philosophy and
history, and divided into three parts-Historicity, Narrative, and
Time, Teleology and History, and Embodiment and Experience-this is
the ideal volume for those interested in experience from a
philosophical and historical perspective.
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