Telling the Truth about History"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist |
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... MARGARET JACOB The Politics of Western Science (editor) Living the Enlightenment The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution The Radical Enlightenment The Newtonians and the English Revolution Telling the Truth ABOUT HISTORY.
... MARGARET JACOB The Politics of Western Science (editor) Living the Enlightenment The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution The Radical Enlightenment The Newtonians and the English Revolution Telling the Truth ABOUT HISTORY.
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... Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, some degree of skepticism had come to seem necessary for any true intellectual. Denis Diderot, one of the leaders of the Enlightenment, insisted, “All things must be examined, all must be ...
... Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, some degree of skepticism had come to seem necessary for any true intellectual. Denis Diderot, one of the leaders of the Enlightenment, insisted, “All things must be examined, all must be ...
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... enlightenment. An openness to the interplay between certainty and doubt keeps faith with the expansive quality of democracy. This openness depends in turn on a version of the scientific model of knowledge, based on a belief in the ...
... enlightenment. An openness to the interplay between certainty and doubt keeps faith with the expansive quality of democracy. This openness depends in turn on a version of the scientific model of knowledge, based on a belief in the ...
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... Enlightenment. We call this model of science heroic, because it made scientific geniuses into cultural heroes. Until quite recently, heroic science reigned supreme. The heroic model equated science with reason: disinterested, impartial ...
... Enlightenment. We call this model of science heroic, because it made scientific geniuses into cultural heroes. Until quite recently, heroic science reigned supreme. The heroic model equated science with reason: disinterested, impartial ...
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... Enlightenment had wide influence in every discipline until well into the postwar era. Right up until then, the ... enlightened eighteenth-century forebears who.
... Enlightenment had wide influence in every discipline until well into the postwar era. Right up until then, the ... enlightened eighteenth-century forebears who.
Contents
History Makes a Nation | |
Competing Histories of America | |
Discovering the Clay Feet of Science | |
Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity | |
Truth and Objectivity | |
The Future of History | |
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Telling the Truth about History Joyce Oldham Appleby,Lynn Hunt,Lynn Avery Hunt,Margaret C. Jacob Limited preview - 1994 |
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