Understanding History And Other Essays

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497675715
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding History written by Bertrand Russell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on topics from nuclear physics to the role of faith in society from the Nobel Prize–winning philosopher. Originally written in 1943 and published in 1957 by Philosophical Library, Inc, these vigorous essays from one of the most distinguished minds of our time reveal several facets of the English philosopher’s thought. The title piece exposes the deadliness of the academic approach to the past, and shows how the reading of history can be a vivid intellectual pleasure. In “The Value of Free Thought,” Russell once again proves himself a ruthless foe of stifling orthodoxy and a fearless champion of free thought, free action and free speech. Then in a series of articles on a subject near to his heart, he explores the effect of atomic physics on such philosophic concepts as materialism, idealism, determinism and faith. In short, here is a complete banquet of provocative ideas—wise and witty; skeptical and profound—to whet the appetite of every discriminating reader.

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ISBN 13 : 9781566490573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107394597
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Was History? written by Anthony Grafton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history of European ideas. Grafton explains why so many of these works were written, why they attained so much insight – and why, in the centuries that followed, most scholars gradually forgot that they had existed. Elegant and accessible, What Was History? is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr's celebrated Trevelyan Lectures, What Is History?.

Author : Mike Wallace
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566394451
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory written by Mike Wallace and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about why history matters. It shows how popularized historical images and narratives deeply influence Americans' understanding of their collective past. A leading public historian, Mike Wallace observes that we are a people who think of ourselves as having shed the past but also avid tourists who are on a "heritage binge," flocking by the thousands to Ellis Island, Colonial Williamsburg, or the Vietnam Memorial.Wallace probes into the trivialization of history that pervades American culture as well as the struggles over public memory that provoke stormy controversy. The recent imbroglio surrounding the National Air and Space Museum's proposed Enola Gay exhibit was reported as centering on why the U.S. government decided to use the A-Bomb against Japan. Wallace scrutinizes the actual plans for the exhibit and investigates the ways in which the controversy drew in historians, veterans, the media, and the general public.Whether his subject is multimillion dollar theme parks owned by powerful corporations, urban museums, or television docudramas, Mike Wallace shows how their depictions of history are shaped by assumptions about which pasts are worth saving, whose stories are worth telling, what gets left out, and who is authorized to make the decisions. Author note: Mike Wallace is Professor of History at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is the co-author, with Edwin G. Burrows, of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Author : George Edward Novack
Publisher : New York : Pathfinder Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding History; Marxist Essays written by George Edward Novack and published by New York : Pathfinder Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Answering defenders of the status quo, George Novack explains... how the social organization of labor has shaped the evolution of society, technology, and human nature... how capitalism arose and why this exploitative system is historically outdated...why revolutionary change in society and human development is fundamental to social and cultural progress. Novack discusses the role of the individual in history,major historical theories from the greeeks th the modern day, and how capitalism has forged a single world". -- Publisher.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Imports
ISBN 13 : 9780389203551
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On History and Other Essays written by Michael Oakeshott and published by Barnes & Noble Imports. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199608776
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Understandings written by Stephen Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays by Stephen Davies on the philosophy of music. He explores a range of topics, including how music expresses emotion, modes of perception, and musical profundity. The volume includes original material, newly revised articles, and work published in English for the first time.

Author : Peter Szondi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719014635
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Textual Understanding and Other Essays written by Peter Szondi and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845403029
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is History? written by Michael Oakeshott and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of his intellectual career, and adds significantly to his contributions to the philosophy of historical understanding and political philosophy, as well as to the philosophy of education and aesthetics. The essays were intended mostly for lectures or seminars, and are consequently in an informal style that will be accessible to new readers as well as to those already well acquainted with Oakeshott's works. Early pieces include a long essay ‘On the Relations of Philosophy, Poetry, and Reality', and Oakeshott’s comments on ‘The Cambridge School of Political Science’ through which he himself had passed as an undergraduate. The collection also reproduces a substantial wartime essay ‘On Peace with Germany’. There are two new essays on the philosophy of education, and the essay which gives the work its title, ‘What is History?’, is just one of over half a dozen discussions of the nature of historical knowledge. Oakeshott’s later sceptical, ‘hermeneutic’, thought is also well represented by pieces such as ‘What is Political Theory?’ and ‘The Emergence of the History of Thought.’ Reviews of books by English and European contemporaries such as Butterfield, Hayek, Voegelin, and Arendt also help to place him in context more clearly than before. The book will be indispensable for all Oakeshott’s readers, no matter which area of his thought concerns them most.

Author : Davis Bitton
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252020797
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ritualization of Mormon History, and Other Essays written by Davis Bitton and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Latter-day Saints of the 19th century defend their plural marriage system? What kind of poetry was written on the Mormon frontier, and what social function did it perform? In a collection intended to convey the excitement and variety of Mormon history, Bitton considers these and other issues, and demonstrates how a religious group survives and maintains its sense of identity in the face of change and adaptation to new circumstances.