Historical Consciousness - 2nd Edition

Name: Historical Consciousness - 2nd Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

One of the most important developments of Western civilization has been the growth of historical consciousness. > \nOne of the most important developments of Western civilization has been the growth of historical consciousness. Consciously or not, history has become a form of thought applied to every facet of human experience; every field of human action can be studied, described, or understood through its history. In this extraordinary analysis of the meaning of the remembered past, John Lukacs discusses the evolution of historical consciousness since its first emergence about three centuries ago. > INTRODUCTION, or the state of historical knowledge ( 1985) xxiii (1) What has happened to history lately? xxiii (2) Last stage of the decay of scientific history xxvii (3) The bureaucratization of historians xxx ( 4) What historians do with ideas xxxii (5) Emergence of a new historical philosophy I. OUR HISTORICAL CONDITION, or the evolution of historical thinking II. HISTORY IN TH)