Developments in Modern Historiography

208 Pages·1993·23.28 MB·English

by  Henry Kozicki (eds.)

DEVELOPMENTS IN MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Also by Henry Kozicki
TENNYSON AND CLIO
History in the Major Poems
THE WRITING OF HISTORY
Literary Form and Historical Understanding (co-editor)
*WESTERN AND RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Recent Views (editor)
* Also published by Palgrave
Developments in Modern
Historiography
Edited by
Henry Kozicki
Professor Emeritus of English and linguistics
Indiana University-Purdue University
With an Introduction by
Sidney Monas
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Contents
A Note on Transliteration from Cyrillic vii
Notes on the Contributors viii
Preface xi
Henry Kozicki
1 Introduction: Contemporary Historiography: Some
Kicks in the Old Coffin 1
Sidney Monas
PART ONE: OBJECT AND SUBJECT IN HISTORY 17
2 Rationality and History 19
Georg G. Iggers
3. Text, Context, and Psychology in Intellectual History 40
Gerald N. Izenberg
4 Whither History? Reflections on the Comparison between
Historians and Scientists 63
Theodore K. Rabb
5 The Sociological Historiography of Charles Tilly 79
Leon J. Goldstein
6 Dialectical Rationality in History: A Paradigmatic
Approach to Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of
Louis Bonaparte 95
Michael A. Kissell
PART TWO: SOURCES, RESOURCES AND EXPLANATIONS 105
7 "A Fetishism of Documents"?: The Salience of Source
Based History 107
Arthur Marwick
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8 Marxism and Historians of the Family 139
Richard T. Vann
9 "They Were Not Quite Like Us": The Presumption
of Qualitative Difference in Historical Writing 164
Eero Loone
10 Strategies of Causal Explanation in History 182
Andrus Park
Index 193
A Note on Transliteration from
Cyrillic
There is no completely satisfactory system of transliteration. The phonetic
(or, as some like to call it, "fanatic") system is precise and economical, but
to the uninitiated reader, seeing Cexov on the page for Chekhov or Tolstoj
for Tolstoy can be a mildly unsettling experience. In this collection, we
have used, consistently in the notes, the Library of Congress system, used in
most libraries in the English-speaking world. In the text, we have modified
it somewhat by omitting the Cyrillic soft sign (') and hard sign (") and by
using the adjectival name-ending -sky instead of -skii. Thus, we would
have Dostoevskii in the notes ~U1d Dostoevsky in the text, but wish to
assure you, gentle reader, that he remains the same person. In the case
of familiar spellings of familiar names, we have retained them in the text:
thus, Tolstoy, and not Tolstoi. In the case of Russians who have published
extensively in English, we have retained their own preferred spelling of
their names: thus, Yanov, and not Ianov. In the Library of Congress system,
it should perhaps be added that both the soft e (pronounced "yeh") and the
hard e (pronounced "eh") are transcribed by "e". In the notes, we have tried
to follow the Library of Congress system consistently.
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Notes on the Contributors
Leon J. Goldstein is a Professor of Philosophy in, and a fonner chainnan
of, the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at
Binghamton. Since 1979, he has been an editor of the journal International
Studies in Philosophy. He has published some fifty articles and over 100
reviews on a variety of subjects. His books include Historical Knowing
(1976) and (with Lucy S. Dawidowicz) Politics in a Pluralistic Democracy
(1963; 1974). A work-in-progress is a book, Conceptual Tension.
Georg G. Iggers is a Distinguished Professor of History at the State
University of New York at Buffalo. He has held many posts abroad, most
recently as a visiting scholar at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt.
He is the author of The Cult of Authority: The Political Philosophy of
the Saint-Simonians (1958; 2nd edn 1970); The German Conception of
History: The National Tradition from Herder to the Present (1968; rev.
edn 1983; Gennan and Hungarian translations); and New Directions in
European Historiography (1975; rev. edn 1984; Gennan, Italian, Danish,
Korean, Japanese, and Chinese translations). He has edited or co-edited
The Doctrine of Saint-Simon (1958; rev. edn 1972); Leopold von Ranke
The Theory and Practice of History (1973); International Handbook
of Historical Studies (1978; Chinese translation); Leopold von Ranke:
The Shaping of the Historical Discipline (1990); Marxist Historiography
in Transformation: East German Social History in the 1980s (1991;
German version, Ein anderer historische Blick: Beispiele ostdeutscher
Sozialgeschichte [1991]). He has published many journal articles in the
U.S.A. and Europe.
Gerald N. Izenberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of
History of Washington University, a Co-Director of its Literature and
History Program, and a Faculty Member of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic
Institute. His book, The Existentialist Critique of Freud (1976), his articles
and papers, and his contributions to collections, are in the general field of
psycho history. He has also published Impossible 1ndividuality: Romanti
cism, Revolution and the Origin of Modem Seljhood, 1787-1802 (1992).
Michael A. Kissell was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Leningrad 1972-1985, and is now the Chief Research-Associate of the
Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in
Moscow. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Moscow,
Wroclav University in Poland, and Turku University in Finland. He has
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Notes on the Contributors ix
published more than 100 articles. His nine books are on Hegel, Sartre,
Vico, and various philosophical subjects. His most recent books are Hegel
and the Modem World (Leningrad, 1982), and The French Enlightenment
and the Revolution (Moscow, 1989). He is also a co~editor of, and author
of the introductory essay to, the Russian translation of R. G. Collingwood's
The Idea of History.
Eero Loone is a Professor and Head of the Department of Philoso
phy and Political Science at Tartu University in Estonia. He is also a
Board Member of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology, and Law in
the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Among his recent works are the
articles "Philosophic Questions about Historical Research" and "The
Classical Theory of Verstehen and Methodogoical Choices in Historical
Research," in the Acta et commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis: no. 599
(1982) and no. 731 (1986), respectively; and the books An Introduction to
the Marxist Philosophy of Society (Tallinn, 1989), and Soviet Marxism
and Analytic Philosophies of History trans. Brian Pearce, foreword Ernest
Gellner (London: Verso, 1990); originally published in Russian (1980).
Arthur Marwick is a Professor of History at the Open University, in
England. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, and
the Director of L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales in Paris.
His main publications are The Deluge: British Society and the First World
War (1965); The Nature of History (1970), rev. editions 1981, 1989; War,
Peace arui Social Change in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study
of Britain, France, Germany, Russia arui the United States (1974); Class:
Image and Reality in Britain, France and the USA Since 1930 (1980), 2nd
edn 1990; British SOCiety Since 1945 (1982), rev. editions 1989, 1990; and
Beauty in History: Society arui Personal Appearance c. 1500 to the Present
(1988); he has edited Total War and Social Change (1988) and The Arts,
Literature and Society (1990).
Sidney Monas is a Professor with ajoint appointment in the Department of
History and the Department of Slavic Languages at the University of Texas
at Austin; he is a fonner chainnan of the latter. He has been a visiting
professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and St. Antony's College
at Oxford. He has translated and edited many works from the Slavic and
especially the Russian language, in particular the works of Dostoevsky. He
has served on the editorial boards of many journals in his fields; currently
he is the editor of Slavic Review.
Andrus Park (fonnerly Andrus Pork) is a Professor of Philosophy at Tartu
State University, and currently a Member of the Presidium, and Acting
General Scientific Secretary, of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He