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Use and Abuse of History

English · Hardback

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Historical knowledge, this noted Dutch historian declares, should be a result of free investigation and criticism. Since it deals with facts, not imagination, it cannot be cast into a predetermined mold to fit a unified pattern of arbitrary principles. "The most we can hope for," he states, "is a partial rendering, an approximation, of the real truth about the past." In this succinct analysis of the philosophy and method of history, Professor Geyl examines the prevailing concepts of history and the new "awareness of distance" from the past that was lacking in earlier historians. History, he points out, provides an elucidation of the present and its problems by showing them in perspective. This important study of the historical point of view is based on the author's Terry Lecture at Yale.


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Authors Pieter Geyl
Publisher Yale University Press Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2008
 
EAN 9780300136517
ISBN 978-0-300-13651-7
No. of pages 108
Series The Terry Lectures
The Terry Lectures
The Terry Lectures Series
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries

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