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Time and History : The Variety of Cultures / ed. by Jörn Rüsen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Making Sense of History ; 10Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845453497
  • 9780857450418
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 115
LOC classification:
  • BD638 .T5435 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Series -- Introduction -- Part I TIME -- Chapter 1: Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness -- Chapter 2: Concepts of Time in Traditional Cultures -- Chapter 3: Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in Dimodonko -- Chapter 4: Time Concepts in China -- Chapter 5: Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern India -- Chapter 6: Interpretations of Time in Islam -- Chapter 7: Constructions of Time in the Literature of Modernity -- Part II HISTORY -- Chapter 8: History, Culture, and the Quest for Organism -- Chapter 9: Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue -- Chapter 10: Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary India -- Chapter 11: Politics of Historical Sense Generation -- Chapter 12: Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural Diversity -- Chapter 13: The Search for Scholarly Identity—Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan -- Chapter 14: History and Cultural Identity: The Case of Japan -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index of Names
Summary: This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Japan, and India as well as pre-modern societies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Series -- Introduction -- Part I TIME -- Chapter 1: Making Sense of Time: Toward a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness -- Chapter 2: Concepts of Time in Traditional Cultures -- Chapter 3: Time, Ritual, and Rhythm in Dimodonko -- Chapter 4: Time Concepts in China -- Chapter 5: Aspects of Zeitdenken in the Inscriptions in Premodern India -- Chapter 6: Interpretations of Time in Islam -- Chapter 7: Constructions of Time in the Literature of Modernity -- Part II HISTORY -- Chapter 8: History, Culture, and the Quest for Organism -- Chapter 9: Competing Visions of History in Internal Islamic Discourse and Islamic-Western Dialogue -- Chapter 10: Cultural Plurality Contending Memories and Concerns of Comparative History: Historiography and Pedagogy in Contemporary India -- Chapter 11: Politics of Historical Sense Generation -- Chapter 12: Communalism, Nationalism, Secularism: Historical Thinking in India and the Problem of Cultural Diversity -- Chapter 13: The Search for Scholarly Identity—Renaming the Field of History in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan -- Chapter 14: History and Cultural Identity: The Case of Japan -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index of Names

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This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Japan, and India as well as pre-modern societies.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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