Western historical thinking
Subtitle: an intercultural debate
By: edited by Jörn Rüsen.
Contributors: Rüsen, Jörn.; Universität Bielefeld. Forschungsgruppe Historische Sinnbildung.
Series: Making sense of history
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: History -- Philosophy.; Civilization, Western.; History -- Methodology.; Historiography.; Africa -- Civilization -- Historiography.; Asia -- Civilization -- Historiography.
Other titles: Westliches Geschichtsdenken.
Description: "What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can be defined in contrast to other forms of historical consciousness?

In this volume, Peter Burke, a prominent "Western" historian, offers ten hypotheses that attempt to constitute specifically "Western Historical Thinking." Scholars from Asia and Africa comment on his position in the light of their own ideas of the sense and meaning of historical thinking. The volume is rounded off by Peter Burke's comments on the questions and issues raised by the authors and his suggestions for the way forward towards a common ground for intercultural communication."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chiefly written by members of the Forschungsgruppe Historische Sinnbildung, Universität Bielefeld.
Based in part on Westliches Geschichtsdenken (1999).