A group dedicated to the fields of historical theory and the philosophy of history.
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Easternisation and Enlightenment. Larry Wolff, Marquis de Ségur and the Younger Europe in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
The article describes two accounts of Poland and the culture of its people. The first of these dates from 1784 and was written by the Marquis de Ségur, a French diplomat travelling to St Petersburg. The second, from 1840, was written by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, at the time working as a professor at the Collège de France in Paris. I try t…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Globalización y sostenibilidad in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Spanish abstract: Unas notas sobre el final del libro ‘El lugar del hombre en el cosmos’ de Fred Spier, sobre la sostenibilidad de la actual comunicación globalizada. La Gran Historia sitúa al ser humano en el contexto de la evolución cósmica y de la ecología de los recursos. Vivimos hoy en la Era de los Combustibles Fósiles. Con esta energ…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Eligiendo nuestro universo (Choosing Our Universe) in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Spanish abstract: ´El Gran Diseño´, libro de Stephen Hawking y Leonard Mlodinow (Bantam, 2010) se propone responder científicamente a algunas cuestiones que en tiempos pasados se explicaban mediante mitos de creación: por qué existe el universo, y por qué es como es. Nos centramos aquí en una de sus propuestas más controvertidas, la teoría d…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La Segunda República, Beevor la Guerra Civil in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
Spanish abstract: La Segunda República española duró no del 31 al 36, sino del 31 al 39, aunque la etapa de la guerra civil (1936-1939) tiene otro carácter, y quizá haya que llamarla a ésa la tercera república. Es normal por tanto que una historia de la guerra civil empiece con una historia de la República. Vemos aquí la perspectiva que sobre el…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Dialéctica de la Religión y la Ilustración in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Spanish abstract: Examinamos el tratamiento que da Hegel, en su ´Fenomenología del Espíritu´, a la crítica racionalista a la religión, con algunas observaciones sobre la situación en nuestros propios tiempos. Hegel aporta una perspectiva compleja, y desde el planteamiento mismo de su teoría del del espíritu superando una forma de concienc…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited The Big History of Humanity: A Macrohistory, Macrosociology and Metahistory of Humankind in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The human environment has a…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Somos siete mil millones in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
Spanish abstract: La población del planeta Tierra ha sobrepasado la cifra de siete mil millones de habitantes. Comentamos las reflexiones de Fred Spier sobre el crecimiento y el desarrollo sostenible, desde la perspectiva desilusionante que ofrece la crítica de Alfred Bartlett a los modelos de crecimiento, y en relación a la noción de equ…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Cyprian Norwid and the History of Greece in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Ancient Greek history holds a special place in the works of many 19th-c. writers. The same goes for Cyprian Norwid, one of the most eminent poets in the history of Polish literature, a thinker, and an artist. This book scrutinizes Norwid’s fascination with Greek history and culture, especially his peculiar synthesis of Greek thought and C…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Coronavirus/Covid-19 Pandemic Scare: A Bibliography in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
A bibliographical listing, including audio, video, etc., from the perspective of critical and cultural studies, on the 2020-2021 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic scare (Coronavirus, COVID-19). From ‘A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology’, 2021.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Arqueología del lenguaje y del pensamiento in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Comentamos, con ocasión del libro de Ángel Rivera ‘Arqueología del lenguaje’, los principales conceptos de arqueología cognitiva y sus posibles desarrollos en relación en particular a las aportaciones de la lingüística cognitiva y la narratología.
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Rozum, idea, filologia. Historia intelektualna w kontekstach literatury in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
REASON, IDEA, PHILOLOGY INTELLECTUAL HISTORY IN LITERARY CONTEXTS (WRITTEN
ON THE MARGINS OF CYPRIAN NORWID’S “MILCZENIE” (“SILENCE”))
The article examines the 19th century evolution of history of ideas and its relatedness to literary studies.
The debate whether philology, philosophy, and history are autonomous humanistic disciplines or
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sobre mundos paralelos in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Spanish abstract: Una nota sobre el uso de las nociones de multiverso y realidades paralelas en cosmología (Brian Greene) y en literatura (Philip Pullman).
_________________________________________________________________________________________English abstract: A note on the use of the notion of a multiverse and parallel worlds in…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Полибий о Понте Эвксинком: история геологического времени in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Russian Abstract: В статье рассматриваются авторские отступления на тему гидрографии Черного моря (Понт Эвксинский) в четвертой книге Всеобщей истории Полибия. Наблюдения греческого историка за влиянием длительного воздействия рек и морских течений на геологические трансформации рельефа сделали его предвестником геологической теории униформиз…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited I Laugh Because it’s Absurd: Humor as Error Detection in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
This chapter will focus on the overlap and benefits of a humorous and philosophical attitude toward the world and our place in it. The first part of this chapter’s title borrows from Kierkegaard and before him the Christian apologist Turtullian, who once quipped about the central contradictory tenets of Christianity, in putatively ironic f…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Polish Reflections: The Reception of the Defeat of Athens in the Works of Gottfried Ernst Groddeck and Joachim Lelewel in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
This article describes how the Polish intellectuals G.E. Groddeck (1763–1825) and Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861) referenced and analysed events connected with the fall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. It aims to show how treatments of ancient Athens changed after 1795, when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to be an independent count…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited The Story Behind Any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative Mapping in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
“The narratives of the world are numberless”; yet, all stories may be seen as chapters of a single story, the story of universal evolution as uncovered by contemporary science, with processes of human emergence and cultural development as a prominent backdrop to the understanding of any narrative process. Evolutionary approaches to literary and…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Con la Historia a cuestas: ‘Lone Star’, de John Sayles in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
Spanish abstract: ‘Lone Star’ (John Sayles, 1996) es una película sobre la etnicidad y sobre el peso del pasado tratado aquí de manera reflexiva. Es un tema inevitablemente presente en las películas norteamericanas (o en muchas de ellas) pero a menudo sólo como parte del trasfondo, o evitado en el desarrollo de la historia principal. Aquí está…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘La Peste Escarlata’ y la epidemiología evolutiva in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
El artículo examina el relato de Jack London “La Peste Escarlata” desde la perspectiva de la actual epidemiología evolucionista, sosteniendo que su comprensión pesimista de la dinámica epidemiológica en poblaciones crecientes, y su visión catastrofista de la evolución, son esencialmente correctas y se hallan muy por delante de las ideas recibi…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Responsibility as a historiosophical category. The case of Cyprian Norwid in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
For many reasons, the mid-19th century was a time of intensified interest within literature and philosophy in outstanding individuals who were ahead of
their times and opened up new prospects for the world as it developed. In this respect, Norwid shared the views of his era. Studies on his oeuvre have spread
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Recepcja spartańskiej historii w pierwszych dekadach XIX wieku. Perspektywa polska: Groddeck – Lelewel ‒ Mickiewicz in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Over the last four decades of the 18th century, the image of Sparta began to include a few characteristic elements that later became an important point of reference for 19th-century writers, philosophers and historians. Issues of Spartan equality of citizens, fully responsible for their country, and also soldierly honour and Sparta’s military c…[Read more]
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