The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory introduces the foundations of modern historical theory and the applications of theory to a full range of sub-fields of historical research, bringing the reader as up to date as possible with continuing debates and current developments.
The book is divided into three key parts, covering:
- Part I. Foundations: The Theoretical Grounds for Kn...
The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory introduces the foundations of modern historical theory and the applications of theory to a full range of sub-fields of historical research, bringing the reader as up to date as possible with continuing debates and current developments.
The book is divided into three key parts, covering:
- Part I. Foundations: The Theoretical Grounds for Knowledge of the Past
- Part II. Applications: Theory-Intensive Areas in History
- Part III. Coda. Post-Postmodernism: Directions and Interrogations.
This important handbook brings together, in one volume, discussions of modernity, empiricism, deconstruction, narrative and postmodernity in the continuing evolution of the historical discipline into our post-postmodern era. Chapters are written by leading academics from around the world and cover a wide array of specialized areas of the discipline, including social history, intellectual history, gender, memory, psychoanalysis and cultural history. The influence of major thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Hayden White is fully examined.
This handbook is an essential resource for practising historians, and students of history, and will appeal to scholars in related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities who seek a closer understanding of the theoretical foundations of history.
塞缪尔・亨廷顿那众所周知的“文明冲突”（ clash of civilisations）论定义了若干文明，在它们中是“西方”它们所主张的主体性必须为生存而斗争・因而他提出“西方”必须捍卫自身，否则就会被推毁。于是，对“西方”的主张一一即要求普遍主义，并声言垄断着“进步”“现代性”“理性”等标准一一所进行的去中心化，或许已经造成了一种新的情势，其中，那些普遍主义诉求被剥夺了，“西方人”必须以与美洲原住民（或第一民族）或中国人或“穆斯林”文明不得不采取的同样的方式来捍卫他的主体性、他潜在的权力丧失，且由此他自己的（潜在的）牺牲者。在另一本书中，廷顿认为“西方”文明并不需要生于“西方”，只要接受“西方”价值。4但是他也提出，这种文明将不得不决然地抵御着我们时代的文化相对主义一其他文明同样将在它们自身疆域内捍卫着自己。（顿预计“文明”会像国家一样进行活动，并因此与其他或许也将像或作为国家那般自己组织起来的文明进行战争。）从结构上来说，在许多意义上，亨廷顿的言论是一种近乎经典的后殖民观点，他只需要去确立“西方”在实际中的或即将出现的牺性者，使之变得完美。（542） (查看原文)
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