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Informationen zum Autor Jörn Rüsen was Professor of Modern History at the Universities of Bochum and Bielefeld for many years. From 1994 to 1997 he was the Executive Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Study (Zif). Since 1997 he has been President of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen and Professor for General History and Historical Culture at the University of Witten-Herdecke. Klappentext This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Japan, and India as well as pre-modern societies. Zusammenfassung This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Japan, and India as well as pre-modern societies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Series Jörn Rüsen Introduction Jörn Rüsen PART I: TIME Chapter 1. Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness Jörn Rüsen Chapter 2. Concepts of Time in Traditional Cultures Klaus E. Müller Chapter 3. Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in Dimodonko Fritz W. Kramer Chapter 4. Time Concepts in China Achim Mittag Chapter 5. Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern India Georg Berkemer Chapter 6. Interpretations of Time in Islam Otfried Weintritt Chapter 7. Constructions of Time in the Literature of Modernity Harro Müller PART II: HISTORY Chapter 8. History, Culture, and the Quest for Organism Aziz Al-Azmeh Chapter 9. Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue Abdullahi A. An-Na'im Chapter 10. Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary India B. D. Chattopadhyaya Chapter 11. Politics of Historical Sense Generation D. L. Sheth Chapter 12. Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural Diversity Michael Gottlob Chapter 13. The Search for Scholarly Identity-Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan Masayuki Sato Chapter 14. History and Cultural Identity: The Case of Japan Shingo Shimada Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index ...
