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Decontesting Historical Consciousness provides a comprehensive exploration of historical consciousness, redefining it not just as an academic concept but as a fundamental human state of mind essential for navigating the modern world. By approaching historical consciousness from an ontological perspective, and by viewing humans and the world as both "history-made" and "history-making," the text illuminates how our understanding of the past directly shapes our individual well-being and collective survival.
After an overview of how historical consciousness has been defined over time, this book offers a new ontological definition of the concept. Then it proceeds to analysing the historicity of the world and the human, the historicity of time and historical narratives, and the ways in which history is used. Further, the book discusses the relation of historical consciousness to historical knowledge and historical thinking. A distinctive feature of the work is the introduction of original typologies, including an eleven-part model of historical thinking and a three-tiered quality level of consciousness: innate, reflective, and scholarly. The author also bridges the gap between theory and practice by examining the application of history in politics, education, and entertainment, while utilizing Bloom's taxonomy to categorize historical knowledge.
Designed for scholars, students, and practitioners in history, history education, philosophy, and sociology, this book is an essential resource for those seeking to enhance historical thinking and self-awareness. Its unique "two-timensional" versus "three-timensional" approach makes it a compelling read for anyone interested in how historical narratives and "biocultural" evolution influence contemporary democratic participation and global crises like climate change.
Contents
1. Introduction
2T and 3T: A reflection on doing History
The cornerstones of historical knowledge
Contestation and decontestation of historical consciousness
2. Historical consciousness contested
Historical consciousness as consciousness of historicity
Historical consciousness as temporal consciousness
Rüsen's typology of historical consciousness
Historical consciousness as a meaning-making mental process
Historical consciousness and historical thinking
Historical consciousness, collective memory and the use of history
Historical consciousness as an essentially contested concept
Merging reflections
3. Decontesting historical consciousness
Definition of consciousness
Definition of historical consciousness
4. Being conscious of the historicity of the world
5. Being conscious of the historicity of the being
Biological consciousness
Social consciousness
Cultural consciousness
Biocultural consciousness
Historicity of the being and historical empathy
6. Being conscious of the historicity of time
Categories of time
Dimensions of historical time
Layers of historical time
Space of Experience and Horizon of Expectation
7. Being conscious of the historicity of historical narratives
Historical narratives and their content
Types of historical narratives
Chronology, periodization and concepts as challenges
8. Being conscious of the use of history
Rethining history use in relation to historical consciounsness
Types of history use
Merging reflections
9. Being conscious of historical knowledge
Touching on (parts of) historical knowledge
Types of historical knowledge
The process of historical knowledge —and its limits
Merging reflections
10. Being conscious of historical thinking
Types of historical thinking
Content-related types
Operation-related types
Epistemological types
From awareness to consciousness, via thinking
11. Innate, reflective and scholarly historical consciousness
12. Conclusions
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