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Author Davies, Martin L.

Title Historics [electronic resource] : why history dominates contemporary society / Martin L. Davies.

Imprint London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description viii, 287 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-279) and index.
Contents Getting at what is behind history -- The already historicized world -- The concept of historics -- Historical illusions -- The logic of "sense" -- A sense of history -- Theme -- History and indiscriminate interests -- The cultural politics of distinction -- Historics -- History and sentience -- The organic conception of history -- 'The common denominator of all our sensibilities' -- 'The anguish secreted by human infirmity' -- Comprehension and history -- Apprehension and history -- Historical knowledge -- The 'prosthesis god' -- Neither art nor science -- Historical discourse -- Phantom experiences -- History as a sense-management system -- The faith of fallen Jews -- Homo studiosus -- History as symbolic re-enactment -- Coda.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject History -- Philosophy.
History -- Psychological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0415261651 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415261654 (hardback : alk. paper)
041526166X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415261661 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415361654

 
    
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