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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Historical Thought"”.
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Wounds of the past: Trauma and German historical thought after 1945
… is an intellectual history of trauma and historical thinking in postwar Germany. I argue that the traumas of the Second World War generated a paradigm shift in German historical thought, as experiences of dehumanization, exile, imprisonment, destruction, and genocide destabilized …
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Sicily's Artful Historian: An investigation into the historical thought and method of Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheke has traditionally been seen as a quarry for the lost historians on whose works he drew while researching it. Consequently, Diodorus has not been studied as a historian in his own right, and the Bibliotheke has become little more than a jigsaw puzzle, with sections …
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History, Moral Philosophy, and Social Theory in David Hume’s Intellectual Development, 1739-1752
This thesis shows how David Hume developed his historical thought between the Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) and the Political Discourses (1752). It approaches Hume’s historical thought from two perspectives: historical method and historical structure. On the methodological side, the thesis …
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Histories of Liberty in Scottish Thought, 1747-1787
… episode in the history of eighteenth-century historical and political thought. The prevailing interpretation holds that the Scots brought the philosophical idiom of ‘society’ to bear on English historiography, and weeded out its far-fetched elements; but that they left its conceptual …
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Nature of talk and interaction in the Singapore history classroom
… involves adductive thinking (Booth, 1983), where historical evidence and facts are 'teased out' and a convincing account of the past is then reconstructed through speculation, imagination and empathy (Nichol, 1984; Booth, 1983). The teaching and learning of history should not just be the …