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The editors introduce the core areas of current debate within historical theory, bringing the reader as up to date with continuing debates and current developments as is possible. The book is divided into three parts, covering: • Part I. Foundations: The Theoretical Grounds for Knowledge of the Past • Part II. Applications: Theory-Intensive Areas in History • Part III. Coda. Post-Postmodernism: Directions and Interrogations This important handbook brings together in one volume discussions of the role of modernity, empiricism, realism, post-modernity and deconstruction in the historian's craft. Chapters are written by leading writers from around the world and cover a wide spread of historical sub-disciplines, such as social history, intellectual history, narrative, gender, memory, psycho-analysis and cultural studies, taking in, along the way, the work of thinkers such as Paul Ricouer, Michel Foucault and Hayden White. The Sage Handbook of Historical Theory is an essential resource for practicing historians, and students of history, and will appeal to scholars in related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities who seek a closer understanding of the theoretical foundations of history.
Psychoanalysis and the Making of History
Psychoanalysis and the Making of History
In mapping the relationships between history and psychoanalysis, we might identify three broad although overlapping fields. Firstly there is now a considerable and rapidly growing body of research on the history of psychoanalysis. This includes cultural histories which tend to be agnostic towards the basic premises of psychoanalysis, regarding it as set of knowledge claims or a technology of the self whose relationship to modernity in the twentieth century needs to be understood.1 It also includes studies from within the field of psychoanalysis itself, sometimes orientated towards practitioners and reflecting a professional and personal allegiance to a particular form of psychoanalytic thought.2 Secondly, there are historians who draw on psychoanalytic ideas to ...
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