How to make sense of the past - salient issues of Metahistory

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ID2640166
AuthorsJorn Rusen (North-West University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume3
Issue1
Publication date2007-04-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1817-4434 • E-ISSN: 2415-2005
PublisherAOSIS (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.4102/td.v3i1.316
OpenAlexW2111512648
LanguageEN
Citations received15

This aerticle provides an overview of current issues in metahistoty. Basic categories of historical thinking, such as memory and historical culture, or historical consciousness, are outlined and contextualised in the field of historical studies. The leading question adresses the process of historical sense generation and its fundamental principles and criteria. In respnse to the traumatic historical experiences of crimes against humanitiy in the 20th century two culturally established procedures of sense generation are applied to historical thinking: mourning and forgiving. The author tries to widen the horizon of historical thinking into the dimension of intercultural communication. In the process he responds to the challenge of globilization. There is an accent on the need to pursue new approaches in history

Archaeology · Consciousness · Epistemology · Historical Thinking · Salient · Sociology · Computer Science · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · German History and Society · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology

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