Crossing cultural borders: How to understand historical thinking in China and the west

History and Theory

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-193

  Rüsen, Jörn ^a  

^a Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut   (Germany)

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EID: 61149094875     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2007.00399.x     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. His interpretation follows a general line of thought by East Asian scholars that distinguishes between East and West. Cf. Masayuki Sato, "Cognitive Historiography and Normative Historiography," in Western Historical Thinking: An Intercultural Debate, ed J. Rüsen (New York: Berghahn Books, 2002), 128-141;
2. Thomas H. C. Lee, "Must History Follow Rational Patterns of Interpretation? Critical Questions from a Chinese Perspective," in ibid., 173-177.
3. See Rüsen, ed., Western Historical Thinking.
4. Cicero, De Oratore 2, 26.
5. See the collection of texts representing the humanistic theory of history in early modern Western history in Eckhard Kessler, Theoretiker humanistischer Geschichtsschreibung (Munich: W. Fink, 1971).
6. Chun-Chieh Huang, "The Denning Character of Chinese Historical Thinking," History and Theory 46 (2007), 184 (this issue).
7. Niccolò Machiavelli, Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio [1531].
8. See Felix Gilbert, Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in 16th Century Florence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965).
9. Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, vol. I, transl. F. Rosenthal (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958).
10. Arno Seiffert, Cognitio Historica: Die Geschichte als Namengeherin der frühneuzeitlichen Empirie (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1976).
11. See Jörn Rüsen, "Culture: Universalism, Relativism, or What Else?" Journal of the Interdisciplinary Crossroads 1:1 (April, 2004), 1-8.
12. Jörn Rüsen, "Some Theoretical Approaches to Intercultural Comparison of Historiography," History and Theory, Chinese Historiography in Comparative Perspective, Theme Issue 35 (1996), 5-22
13. (Chinese translation: "Kua wenhua bijiaoshixue de yixie lilum zonxiang," in Zhonggua shixueshi yantaohui cong hijiao guandian chufa lunwenj, ed. S. Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and A. Schneider [Bangiao/Taipei: Taoxiang chubanshe, 1999], 151-176).
14. See Jörn Rüsen, "History: Overview," in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, ed. N. Smelser and P. Baltes (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001 ), 6857-6864.
15. I have explicated my typology of historical sense-generation in various texts. The most extended one is "Die vier Typen des historischen Erzahlens," Zeit und Sinn: Strategien historischen Denkens, ed. J. Rüsen (Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1990), 153-230;
16. an English summary is Jörn Rüsen, "Historical Narration: Foundation, Types, Reason," History and Theory, The Representation of Historical Events, Beiheft 26 (1987), 87-97.
17. Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past; On the Semantics of Historical Time, transl. Keith Tribe (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985).
18. Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, "Multiple Modernities," Daedalus 129 (2000), 1-30.
19. Hellwig Schmidt-Glintzer andAchim Mittag, "' Aufklä rungshistorie' in China?," in Dimensionen der Hislorik. Geschichtstheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Geschichtskultur heute: Jörn Rtisen zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. H. W. Blanke, F. Jaeger, and T. Sandkühler (Cologne: Böhlau, 1998), 313-330.