The Routledge Companion To Historical Theory

<P>This <I>Companion</I> provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to. </P><P>The book offers both historical and systematic treatments of these issues, as well as addressing their contemporary relevance. Structured in three parts ¿ Modes and Schools of Historical Thought, Epistemology and Metaphysics of History, and Issues and Challenges in Historical Theory ¿ it offers the reader a wide scope and expert treatment of each topic in this vibrant field that can be read in any order. An international team of experts both discuss the basis of their topic and present their own view, offering the reader a cutting-edge contribution while ensuring their chapters are of interest to both students and specialists in the field of historical theory and engaging with the very nature of historical thought, the metaphysics of historical existence, the politics of history-writing, and the intelligibility of the h

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