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On the Nature and Role of Narrative in Historiography
History and Theory 10 (2):153-171 (1971)
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Several scholars observed that narratives about the human past are evaluated comparatively. Few attempts have been made, however, to explore how such evaluations are actually done. Here I look at a lengthy “contest” among several historiographic narratives, all constructed to make sense of another one—the biblical story of the conquest of Canaan. I conclude that the preference of such narratives can be construed as a rational choice. In particular, an easily comprehensible and emotionally evocative narrative will give way to a (...) |
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The expression "analytic narratives" is used to refer to a range of quite recent studies that lie on the boundaries between history, political science, and economics. These studies purport to explain specific historical events by combining the usual narrative approach of historians with the analytic tools that economists and political scientists draw from formal rational choice theories. Game theory, especially of the extensive form version, is currently prominent among these tools, but there is nothing inevitable about such a technical choice. (...) |
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Today’s technological-scientific prospect of posthumanity simultaneously evokes and defies historical understanding. On the one hand, it implies a historical claim of an epochal transformation concerning posthumanity as a new era. On the other, by postulating the birth of a novel, better-than-human subject for this new era, it eliminates the human subject of modern Western historical understanding. In this article, I attempt to understand posthumanity as measured against the story of humanity as the story of history itself. I examine the fate (...) |
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hilosophy of history and history of philosophy of science make for an interesting case of “mutual containment”: the former is an object of inquiry for the latter, and the latter is subject to the demands of the former. This article discusses a seminal turn in past philosophy of history with an eye to the practice of historians of philosophy of science. The narrative turn by Danto and Mink represents both a liberation for historians and a new challenge to the objectivity (...) |
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The historical sensibility of Western modernity is best captured by the phrase “acting upon a story that we can believe.” Whereas the most famous stories of historians facilitated nation-building processes, philosophers of history told the largest possible story to act upon: history itself. When the rise of an overwhelming postwar skepticism about the modern idea of history discredited the entire enterprise, the historical sensibility of “acting upon a story that we can believe” fell apart to its constituents: action, story form, (...) |
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Im Zeichen neuer geschichts- und erzähltheoretischer Überlegungen gewinnt die mit Winckelmann beginnende Ästhetisierung der Geschichte eine Bedeutung, die seiner Wirkungsgeschichte erst abgerungen werden muß; denn sein erweiterter, für Herder und die romantische Literaturtheorie noch vorbildicher Geschichtsbegriff konnte sich gegen den Objektivitätsanspruch der historisch-kritischen Altertums- und Geschichtswissenschaft auch deshalb nicht behaupten, weil Winckelmanns Begründung der Kunstgeschichte in der Fiktionalisierung seiner Biographie verlorenging. |
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This article discusses the issue of the conceptual accuracy of descriptions of social life, which, although fundamental for the social sciences, has in fact been neglected. I approach this task via an examination of Paul Roth’s recent work, which recapitulates reflection in analytic philosophy of history and sets out a view of the past as indeterminate until retrospectively constructed in historical narratives. I argue that Roth’s position embraces an overly restricted notion of historical significance and underestimates how anachronistic descriptions vitiate (...) |
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Im Zeichen neuer geschichts- und erzähltheoretischer Überlegungen gewinnt die mit Winckelmann beginnende Ästhetisierung der Geschichte eine Bedeutung, die seiner Wirkungsgeschichte erst abgerungen werden muß; denn sein erweiterter, für Herder und die romantische Literaturtheorie noch vorbildicher Geschichtsbegriff konnte sich gegen den Objektivitätsanspruch der historisch-kritischen Altertums- und Geschichtswissenschaft auch deshalb nicht behaupten, weil Winckelmanns Begründung der Kunstgeschichte in der Fiktionalisierung seiner Biographie verlorenging. |
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