Historical Imagination

Hermeneutics and Cultural Narrative

Paul Fairfield

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
29 January 2025

History; Philosophy; Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600; Phenomenology & Existentialism; History of ideas

Series: Social Imaginaries

Historical Imagination defends a phenomenological and hermeneutical account of historical knowledge. The book’s 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 constructivists while focusing on narrative as well as a more encompassing interpretation of who an historical people were, how things stood with them, and how this comes to be known. Fairfield supplements the philosophical argument with an historical examination of how and why during late antiquity, early Christian thinkers began to reimagine their Greek and Roman past, followed by how and why renaissance and later enlightenment figures reimagined their ancient and medieval past.

By: Paul Fairfield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781538156551
ISBN 10: 1538156555
Series: Social Imaginaries
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 29 January 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Fairfield is professor of philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. He has authored, edited, or coedited numerous books in different areas of hermeneutics and phenomenology. His most recent book is Philosophical Reflections on Antiquity: Historical Change (2020).

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Historical Imagination

Hermeneutics and Cultural Narrative

Paul Fairfield

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