9780199377657

Experience and History

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ISBN13: 9780199377657

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David Carr outlines a distinctively phenomenological approach to history. Rather than asking what history is or how we know history, a phenomenology of history inquires into history as a phenomenon and into the experience of the historical. How does history present itself to us, how does itenter our lives, and what are the forms of experience in which it does so? History is usually associated with social existence and its past, and so Carr probes the experience of the social world and of its temporality. Experience in this context connotes not just observation but also involvement andinteraction: We experience history not just in the social world around us but also in our own engagement with it.For several decades, philosophers' reflections on history have been dominated by two themes: representation and memory. Each is conceived as a relation to the past: representation can be of the past, and memory is by its nature of the past. On both of these accounts, history is separated by a gapfrom what it seeks to find or wants to know, and its activity is seen by philosophers as that of bridging this gap. This constitutes the problem to which the philosophy of history addresses itself: how does history bridge the gap which separates it from its object, the past?It is against this background that a phenomenological approach, based on the concept of experience, can be proposed as a means of solving this problem - or at least addressing it in a way that takes us beyond the notion of a gap between present and past.

ISBN-13

9780199377657

ISBN-10

0199377650

Weight

1.07 Pounds

Dimensions

9.50 x 0.90 x 1.80 In

List Price

$125.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

288 pages

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published On

2014-07-29



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