History – Culture – Metaphor. On Historical Thinking

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• History – Culture – Metaphor: The Facets of Non-Classical Historiography
• Introduction
• I. The Tasks of the Epistemology of History
• 1. The Limits of Cultural Imputation
• 1.1. The Issue of Cultural Imputation in History
• 1.2. The Metaphors of Genesis and Development
• 1.3. The Cultural Indeterminacy Principle
• 1.4. The Limits of the “Cultural Imputation” in History: History in the Hermeneutic Circle
• 2. The Concept of Historiographical Metaphor
• 2.1. On Linguistic Metaphor
• 2.2. The Non-Classical Concept of Metaphor
• 2.3. Metaphorical Thinking as Abstract Thinking and Model Making
• 2.4. The Logical Pattern and the Rhetorical Meaning of Metaphor
• 2.5. The Heuristic Function of Metaphor
• 2.6. The Genesis and the Vicissitudes of Metaphors
• 3. The Tasks of the Epistemology of History
• II. The Polemic on Metaphor in Contemporary French Historiography
• 1. The Story of One Metaphor: Revolution
• 2. The Metaphors of Development and Genesis: A Digression
• 3. The Cognitive Function of Metaphors
• 4. On the Metaphor of Revolution (Continued)
• 5. The Struggle of Metaphors in Contemporary French Historiography
• 6. Refreshing the Classical Metaphors
• 7. Revising the Classical Metaphors
• III. The Emergence of Modernist Historiography
• 1. Making Economics Historical, Making History Economic
• 1.1. Economics in the Graticule of Historiographical Metaphors
• 1.2. Making History Economic. The Fathers of Economic Historiography: François Simiand and Ernest Labrousse
• 1.3. The History of Prices: A Dispute over Metaphors
• 2. From Moderate to Extreme Modernism
• 2.1. The Apologists of Quantitative History: Pierre Chaunu and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• IV. Moderate Modernism
• 1. Braudel’s Metaphorical Image of the World
• 1.1. The Human Being in the Social System
• 1.2. Determinism within the Global System
• 1.3. The Ascribing of a Historical Dimension to Nature in Braudel’s Social System
• 1.4. An Incomplete Globalism
• 1.5. A Process-Centered World
• 1.6. The Metaphors of Moderate Modernism
• 2. The Scientific Approach to Material Culture
• 2.1. From Historical Geography to Historical Ecology
• 2.2. The Anthropological Approach to Material Culture
• 2.3. Material Culture vs. Global History
• 2.4. The Material Culture as the Infrastructure of the Economy
• 2.5. Between Objects and the Intellectual Reality
• 3. The Temporal Aspect of Modernist Historiography
• 3.1. The Two Premisses
• 3.2. The Modernist Notion of Time
• 3.3. The Incommensurability of Historiographical Metaphors
• 4. Renouncing the Viewpoint of Direct Anthropomorphism
• 5. In Quest of the Synthetic Metaphor
• 6. The Present Condition of Historiography: The Nouvelle Histoire in the Narrow Sense of the Term
• V. The Emergence of Non-Modernist Historiography
• 1. Historical Anthropology
• 2. The Study of the Mentalité
• Conclusion
• On Historical Thinking
• Introduction
• I. Cultural Imputation as a Model of Historical Thinking and Historical Study
• 1. Prefigurations of Cultural Imputation
• 2. Anthropological Inspirations for the Idea of Cultural Imputation
• 3. Components of Cultural Imputation: On the Principle of Non-Contradiction. Historiographic Metaphors
• 4. Metaphorical Truth
• II. On the Bias of Historical Thinking
• 1. On Cultural Bias
• 2. On Metaphorical Bias
• 2.1. Genesis as a Historiographic Metaphor
• 2.2. The Metaphor of Man: The Individual Causative Entity
• 2.3. The Perspective of Direct Anthropomorphization: The Human Metaphor in Classical Historiography
• 2.4. On Interpretation: Historical Interpretation
• 2.5. Humanistic Interpretation as a Historical Interpretation
• 2.6. On the “Nature” of Generating Activities by the Subject
• 3. On Contingent Bias
• III. Faces of Historical Thinking
• 1. On Some Styles of Historical Thinking about Religious Phenomena
• 2. Boundary and Boundedness as Categories of Thought: Between Defining and Metaphorizing. From Cauche through Bakhtin to Braudel
• 3. To See/To Know: On the Distinguished Role of an Eyewitness in Historical Study
• 3.1. To see/To Know
• 3.2. Credibility of the Direct Witness
• 4. On Two Styles of Practicing the History of Science
• 4.1. Classical and Non-Classical History of Science
• 5. The Applied Truth of the Corporation of Historians
• 6. A Contribution to the Problem of Truth in Recent History
• 6.1. On the Incompleteness of Recent History
• 6.2. On the Veteran and Historical Perspective of Seeing the History of the More Recent Past
• 6.3. On the So-Called Unavailability of Sources for Recent History
• 7. Persuasion and Truth in the Discourse about Politics
• IV. On the Historical Thinking
• 1. Prefigurations of Thinking about Thinking
• 2. Historical Thinking in the Light of the Assumptions of Historical Semiotics (in the Margin of Boris Uspenskij’s Ego Loquens)
• 2.1. Origin and Structure of Communicative Space
• 2.2. The Deictic Centre of Communication Space
• 2.3. The Subjective (Subject) Experience
• 2.4. Community Experience
• 2.5. Communico ergo sum
• 2.6. “I” as the Deictic Centre
• 2.7. Thinking as Autocommunication
• Instead of an Ending
• Literature
• Index of Names
• Series index