Metaphor And History

Author : Robert Nisbet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351505629
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and History written by Robert Nisbet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development. Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth-century phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological evolution.

Author : Hans Blumenberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747991
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History, Metaphors, Fables written by Hans Blumenberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, Metaphors, and Fables collects the central writings by Hans Blumenberg and covers topics such as on the philosophy of language, metaphor theory, non-conceptuality, aesthetics, politics, and literary studies. This landmark volume demonstrates Blumenberg's intellectual breadth and gives an overview of his thematic and stylistic range over four decades. Blumenberg's early philosophy of technology becomes tangible, as does his critique of linguistic perfectibility and conceptual thought, his theory of history as successive concepts of reality", his anthropology, or his studies of literature. History, Metaphors, Fables allows readers to discover a master thinker whose role in the German intellectual post-war scene can hardly be overestimated.

Author : Robert A. Nisbet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195000429
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Change and History written by Robert A. Nisbet and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Javier Fernández-Sebastián
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429756097
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Key Metaphors for History written by Javier Fernández-Sebastián and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in historiography and public discourse, the book identifies some of the key metaphorical resources employed by historians, politicians, and journalists to represent time, history, memory, the past, the present, and the future and examines a selection of analytical concepts of a temporal nature, built upon unmistakeably metaphorical foundations, such as modernity, event, process, revolution, crisis, progress, decline, or transition. The analysis of these and other pillars on which modern history has been built, whether as a philosophy of history, as an academic discipline, or as a set of events, will interest graduates and scholars dealing with the historical and social sciences and the humanities in general. Key Metaphors for History offers a broad overview of historiography and historiosophy, from an unfrequented point of view, halfway between conceptual history, theory of history and metaphorology. Moreover, it constitutes a form of self-reflection of the historian on his or her own positionality when researching and writing history.

Author : David LaRocca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144117561X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor written by David LaRocca and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to a blindness or blurry vision of metaphors; yet even when they are seen clearly, we are left to situate the ambiguities, conflations and contradictions they regularly present-logically, aesthetically and morally. David LaRocca's book serves as a set of 'reminders' of certain features of the natural history of our language-especially the tropes that permeate and define it. As part of his investigation, LaRocca turns to Ralph Waldo Emerson's only book on a single topic, English Traits (1856), which teems with genealogical and generative metaphors-blood, birth, plants, parents, family, names and race. In the first book-length study of English Traits in over half a century, LaRocca considers the presence of metaphors in Emerson's fertile text-a unique work in his expansive corpus, and one that is regularly overlooked. As metaphors are encountered in Emerson's book, and drawn from a long history of usage in work by others, a reader may realize (or remember) what is inherent and encoded in our language, but rarely seen: how metaphors circulate in speech and through texts to become the lifeblood of thought.

Author : D. Erickson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230619754
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts, Metaphor, and History in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel GarcIa MArquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude written by D. Erickson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the complex relations between the figure of the ghost, the textual figure of metaphor and history, in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786725796
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals written by Niall Ferguson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into “imaginary time” and provides far-reaching answers to these intriguing questions.Ferguson's brilliant 90-page introduction doubles as a manifesto on the methodology of counter-factual history. His equally masterful afterword traces the likely historical ripples that would have proceeded from the maintenance of Stuart rule in England. This breathtaking narrative gives us a convincing, detailed “alternative history” of the West—from the accession of “James III” in 1701, to a Nazi-occupied England, to a U.S. Prime Minister Kennedy who lives to complete his term.

Author : Marshall D. Sahlins
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472022342
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities written by Marshall D. Sahlins and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation

Author : D. Draaisma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521650243
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphors of Memory written by D. Draaisma and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, this book explores the metaphors used by philosophers and psychologists to understand memory over the centuries.

Author : Roberto Baranzini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000638456
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphors in the History of Economic Thought written by Roberto Baranzini and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphors in the History of Economic Thought: Crises, Business Cycles and Equilibrium explores the evolution of economic theorizing through the lens of metaphors. The edited volume sheds light on metaphors which have been used by a range of key thinkers and schools of thought to describe economic crises, business cycles and economic equilibrium. Structured in three parts, the book examines an array of metaphors ranging from mechanics, waves, storms, medicine and beyond. The international panel of contributors focuses primarily on economic literature up to the Second World War, knowing again that the use of metaphors in economic work has seen a resurgence since the 1980s. This work will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in the history of economic thought, and economics and language.