| Description |
xxvi, 339 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Oxford paperbacks |
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Oxford paperbacks.
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| Contents |
Introduction. The philosophy of history ; History's nature, object, method, and value ; The problem of parts I-IV -- pt. I. Greco-Roman historiography. Theocratic history and myth ; The creation of scientific history by Herodotus ; Anti-historical tendency of Greek thought ; Greek conception of history's nature and value ; Greek historical method and its limitations ; Herodotus and Thucydides ; The Hellenistic period ; Polybius ; Livy and Tacitus ; Character of Greco-Roman historiography : humanism ; [Character of Greco-Roman historiography :] substantialism -- The influence of Christianity. The leaven of Christian ideas ; Characteristics of Christian historiography ; Medieval historiography ; The Renaissance historians ; Descartes ; Cartesian historiography ; Anti-Cartesianism : Vico ; [Anti-Cartesianism :] Locke, Berkeley, and Hume ; The Enlightenment ; The science of human nature -- The threshold of scientific history. Romanticism ; Herder ; Kant ; Schiller ; Fichte ; Schelling ; Hegel ; Hegel and Marx ; Positivism -- Scientific history. England ; Germany ; France ; Italy -- Epilegomena. Human nature and human history ; The historical imagination ; Historical evidence ; History as re-enactment of past experience ; The subject-matter of history ; History and freedom ; Progress as created by historical thinking |
| Notes |
Based on lectures written in 1936; edited by T.M. Knox |
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First published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1946 |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Historiography.
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History -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Knox, T. M. (Thomas Malcolm), 1900-1980.
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| ISBN |
0195002059 (paperback) |
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