Place and time: On the interplay of historical points of view

History and Theory

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 153-167

  Carr, David ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33748486114     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0018-2656.00187     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, ed. J.A. Talbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
2. Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals, ed Niall Ferguson (New York: Basic Books, 1997). Ferguson's book is controversial for more than the expected reasons
3. See the profile of Ferguson by Robert S. Boynton. "Thinking the Unthinkable," in The New Yorker (April 12, 1999), 43-50
4. Ferguson, Virtual History, 20.
5. See "Historia Magistra Vitae" and other essays in Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time, transl. K. Tribe (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985)
6. Herbert Butterfield, The Origins of History, ed. Adam Watson (New York: Basic Books, 1981) 200-201
7. Arthur Danto, Narrative and Knowledge (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985) 350
8. See Friedrich Jaeger and Jörn Rüsen, Geschichte des Historismus: Eine Einführung (Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1992,) 82-83. Jaeger and Rüsen quote the famous passage in its context: "Man hat der Historie das Amt, die Vergangenheit zu richten, die Mitwelt zum Nutzen zukünftiger Jahre zu belehren, beigemessen: so holier Ämter unterwindet sich gegenwärtiger Versuch nicht: er will bloß zeigen, wie es eigentlich gewesen" (82)
9. I argued for this view in my Time, Narrative and History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986)
10. Danto, Narrative and Knowledge, 315.
11. Viktor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, transl. Martin Chalmers, 2 vols. (New York: The Modem Library, 1999, 2001)