History as Wonder History as Wonder

History as Wonder

Beginning with Historiography

Publisher Description

History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder.

From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange histories, through to European historical cabinets of curiosity and on to histories that grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust, Marnie Hughes-Warrington unpacks the ways in which historians throughout the ages have tried to make sense of the world, and to change it. This book considers histories and historians across time and space, including the Ancient Greek historian Polybius, the medieval texts by historians such as Bede in England and Ibn Khaldun in Islamic Historiography, and the more recent works by Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray and Ranajit Guha among others. It explores the different ways in which historians have called upon wonder to cross boundaries between the past and the present, the universal and the particular, the old and the new, and the ordinary and the extraordinary. Promising to both delight and unsettle, it shows how wonder works as the beginning of historiography.

Accessible, engaging and wide-ranging, History as Wonder provides an original addition to the field of historiography that is ideal for those both new to and familiar with the study of history.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2018
November 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
210
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor and Francis
SELLER
Taylor & Francis Group
SIZE
1.2
MB
The Idea of History The Idea of History
2018
Rethinking History Rethinking History
2003
The Varieties of History The Varieties of History
1973
History History
2000
The Landscape of History The Landscape of History
2002
Out of Our Minds Out of Our Minds
2019
Fifty Key Thinkers on History Fifty Key Thinkers on History
2014
Revisionist Histories Revisionist Histories
2013
How Good an Historian Shall I Be? How Good an Historian Shall I Be?
2012
The Problems of Philosophy The Problems of Philosophy
2009
Why I Am Not a Christian Why I Am Not a Christian
2013
Aristotle: The Complete Works Aristotle: The Complete Works
2023
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1892