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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... 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 winnowed and sifted without ...
... 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 winnowed and sifted without ...
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Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob. PART ONE Intellectual Absolutisms 1 The Heroic Model of Science IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PART Intellectual Absolutisms.
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob. PART ONE Intellectual Absolutisms 1 The Heroic Model of Science IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PART Intellectual Absolutisms.
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... EIGHTEENTH CENTURY a small group of determined reformers established science as the new foundation for truth, a granite-like platform upon which all knowledge could rest. The absolute character of their truth mimicked the older ...
... EIGHTEENTH CENTURY a small group of determined reformers established science as the new foundation for truth, a granite-like platform upon which all knowledge could rest. The absolute character of their truth mimicked the older ...
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... as encoded with values, a transmitter of culture as well as physical laws. Even the truth still found in science seems different in character—more provisional, less absolute—than it did to the enlightened eighteenth-century forebears who.
... as encoded with values, a transmitter of culture as well as physical laws. Even the truth still found in science seems different in character—more provisional, less absolute—than it did to the enlightened eighteenth-century forebears who.
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... eighteenth-century forebears who first gloried in it. True to their age, late-twentiethcentury historians of Western science have become skeptical in ways that the true believers of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and beyond would ...
... eighteenth-century forebears who first gloried in it. True to their age, late-twentiethcentury historians of Western science have become skeptical in ways that the true believers of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and beyond would ...
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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