Historical Imagination

Auteur

Paul Fairfield is professor of philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. He has authored, edited, or coedited numerous books in different areas of hermeneutics and phenomenology. His most recent book is Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change (2020).

Texte du rabat

This book is a phenomenological and hermeneutical investigation into the nature of historical imagination. Carefully defining historical imagination, the book probes the relationship between the imaginative and the empirical, as well as the relationship between historical understanding and self-understanding

Contenu

Introduction: Changing the Record

Chapter 1: Historical Imagination I: Interpretation, Narrative, Constructivism

Chapter 2: Historical Imagination II: Evidence and Intentionality

Chapter 3: Early Christian Reimaginings

Chapter 4: Renaissance Reimaginings

Chapter 5: Enlightenment Reimaginings

Chapter 6: Historical Imagination and Cultural Studies

Conclusion