Wat is geschiedenis? Wat verstaan we onder het verleden en waarom ‘trekt’ dit verleden zo, dat duizenden mensen historische films bekijken of musea bezoeken? Als archeologische themaparken en genealogische onderzoekscentra elke week weer vol zitten, wat voor soort belangstelling voor het verleden spreekt daar dan uit? En hoe verhoudt deze ‘populaire’ historische cultuur zich tot de ‘wetenschappelijke’ geschiedbeoefening van academische historici?

Als het verleden trekt is een toeg...

Hans-Georg Gadamer's Wahrheit und Methode (1960) is one of the most influential books on interpretation to have appeared in the past half century. Scholars across the humanities have applied, discussed, and criticized its hermeneutical insights.

This volume aims to continue this conversation between hermeneutics and the humanities, but also tries to map Gadamer's influence on the humanities so far. In which domains of study has Wahrheit und Methode made its greatest impact? Where and for which...

What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right.

Drawing on case studies from the nineteenth-century humanities (with occasional forays into physics, chemistry, and medicine), Paul shows that notions of virtue and vice were an evaluative discourse used across the academi...

Key Issues in Historical Theory is a fresh, clear and well-grounded introduction to this vibrant field of inquiry, incorporating many examples from novels, paintings, music, and political debates. The book expertly engages the reader in discussions of what history is, how people relate to the past and how they are formed by the past. Over 11 thematically-based chapters, Herman Paul discusses subjects such as:history, memory and traumahistorical experience and narrativemoral and political dime...