How to make sense of the past – salient issues of Metahistory
Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa
| Field | Value | |
| Title | How to make sense of the past – salient issues of Metahistory | |
| Creator | Rusen, Jorn | |
| Description | 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. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2007-04-11 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/td.v3i1.316 | |
| Source | The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa; Vol 3, No 1 (2007); 53 pages 2415-2005 1817-4434 | |
| Language | eng | |
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