Historical Imagination

Name: Historical Imagination
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Historical ImaginationHermeneutics and Cultural Narrative\nAuthor(s): Paul Fairfield\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781538156551, 978-1538156551\nSynopsis\nHistorical Imagination defends a phenomenological and hermeneutical account of historical knowledge. The books central questions are what is historical imagination, what is the relation between the imaginative and the empirical, in what sense is historical knowledge always already imaginative, how does such knowledge serve us, and what is the relation of historical understanding and self-understanding? Paul Fairfield revisits some familiar hermeneutical themes and endeavors to develop these further while examining two important periods in which historical reassessments or re-imaginings of the past occurred on a large scale. The conception of historical imagination that emerges seeks to advance beyond the debate between empiricists and postmodern.