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Zusatztext Smith's Full History is an ambitious and original attempt to penetrate into the deep connections between the historical past, present and future. It draws on a considerable breadth of historical examples and is informed by reasonableness and balance. Informationen zum Autor Steven G. Smith is Jennie Carlisle Golding Professor of Philosophy at Millsaps College, USA and the author of The Concept of the Spiritual(1988), Gender Thinking (1992), Worth Doing (2004), and Appeal and Attitude (2005). Vorwort Expanding the cast of actors beyond male, western, and human agency, Full History presents an inclusive philosophical conception of historical action and meaning. Zusammenfassung How can we take history seriously as real and relevant? Despite the hazards of politically dangerous or misleading accounts of the past, we live our lives in a great network of cooperation with other actors; past, present, and future. We study and reflect on the past as a way of exercising a responsibility for shared action. In each of the chapters of Full History Smith poses a key question about history as a concern for conscious participants in the sharing of action, starting with “What Is Historical Meaningfulness?” and ending with “How Can History Have an Aim?” Constructing new models of historical meaning while engaging critically with perspectives offered by Ranke, Dilthey, Rickert, Heidegger, Eliade, Sartre, Foucault, and Arendt, Smith develops a philosophical account of thinking about history that moves beyond postmodernist skepticism. Full History seeks to expand the cast of significant actors, establishing an inclusive version of the historical that recognizes large-scale cumulative actions but also encourages critical revision and expansion of any paradigm of shared action. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1What Is Historical Meaningfulness?Toward full history: historical senseToward fullest history: historical meaningfulnessEvasions and reductions of history thinkingHistorical realism in practical evaluation2How Is History Real?Archetypalism and experientialismHow action sharing is real3How Is History Interesting?Being interested in “history” and the historicalThree modes of historical interestThree openings of historical interestThe most interesting new histories, #1: Natural historyThe most interesting new histories, #2: Feminist historyThe most interesting new histories, #3: Sports history4How Is History Important?Historical importanceThe totalizing and chaotic views of historical mattering: Sartre and FoucaultTheses on historical importance5How Is History Understandable?Historical insight and historical judgmentConditions of insight into shared actionThe practical continuum as spiritualThe game model of the practical continuumIs there such a thing as good historical judgment?The classic historical judgment of JeremiahThe modern historical judgment of Hannah Arendt6How Can History Be Made?The possibility of “making” historyThe movement idealThe problem of “historical injustice”The problem of totalizingFour modes of history makingThe universal history maker 7How Can History Have an Aim?Three historical goals: Utopia, Victory, SalvationThe best world and bad outcomesThree themes of historical fulfillment: Freedom, Solidarity, RedemptionHistory as sacredEpilogue: Difficult HistoryNotesIndex...
