Phenomenology and Historical Thought: Its History as a Practice

Mark E. Blum

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Phenomenology and Historical Thought

Its History as a Practice

Mark E. Blum

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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The volume begins with what is in common to contemporary phenomenological historians and historiographers. That is the understandings that temporality is the core of human judgment conditioning in its forms how we consciously attend and judge phenomena. For every phenomenological historian or historiographer, all history is an event, a span of time. This time span is not external to the individual, rather forms the content and structure of every judgment of the person. It is the logic used by the individual to structure the phenomenon attended. Rather than the phenomenon being seen as something solely external, it is understood by phenomenologists as also of our immediate awareness and thought. Thus, the phenomenological method discerns all judgment as based upon one’s span of attention of inner or outer phenomena.. There is an intentionality to attention. One intends one’s own foci. Attention is the temporal duration of that intending. The volume offers a text that enables contemporary historians, graduate students, and even undergraduates who are well taught, to understand both the history of phenomenology as a method of inquiry, and the contemporary practice of phenomenological historical and historiographical thought.

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Mark E. Blum, Department of History, University of Louisville, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction The Genesis and History of Modern Phenomenological History and Historiography. An Overview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Pre-Modern History of the Phenomenological Method of Discernment—Visual and Grammatical
Chapter 1 Aristotle’s Visual and Verbal Phenomenology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Chapter 2 Aquinas and Dante: the Early Renaissance and its Furtherance of Verbal Phenomenology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
Chapter 3 Giotto and the Furtherance of Visual Phenomenology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	36
Part II: Early Modern History through the Enlightenment and the Development of Visual and Verbal Phenomenological Discernment
Chapter 4 Thomas Hobbes, Wilhelm Leibniz, and Johann Martin Chladenius and the Multiple Objectivities of Historical Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
Chapter 5 Johann Heinrich Lambert and Visual Phenomenological Understanding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
Chapter 6 Immanuel Kant Augmenting the Phenomenological Inheritance of Verbal and Visual Understanding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	69
Chapter 7 Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	76
Part III: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Verbal and Visual Phenomenological Discernment
Chapter 8 Franz Brentano and the Advent of Modern Phenomenology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Chapter 9 Edmund Husserl and Modern Phenomenology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
Chapter 10 Wilhelm Dilthey and Generational Metahistory: Towards a Phenomenological Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
Chapter 11 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung: The Phenomenology of the Spoken Word Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
Chapter 12 Heinrich Wölfflin and a Metahistorical Phenomenological Approach to Visual History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Chapter 13 Wassily Kandinsky and the Non-Euclidean Geometry of the Visual Image: A Phenomenological Understanding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	112
Part IV: Mid-Twentieth into the Twenty-First Century: Further Foundations towards a Thorough Phenomenological History and Historiography
Chapter 14 Andrew Paul Ushenko and Stephen C. Pepper: the Further Development of Verbal and Visual Phenomenology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Chapter 15 Hayden White’s Phenomenological Metahistorical and Metahistoriographical Writings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
Chapter 16 David Carr’s Essays on Phenomenological History and Historiography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
Chapter 17 Mark E. Blum’s Augmentations of Phenomenological Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	154
Chapter 18 Kurt Lewin, Towards a Phenomenology of Interpersonal Activity and Mutual Understanding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	172
Part V: Thorough Phenomenological Metahistory and Meta-Historiography in the Future: What is Needed
Chapter 19 Grounding Metahistory and Meta-Historiography within a Phenomenologically-Based Interpersonal and Interdependent Comprehension Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	190
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199

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August 22, 2022

eBook ISBN:

9783110779424

Hardcover published on:

August 22, 2022

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9783110768978

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8

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206

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19

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2

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110779424

eBook ISBN: 9783110779424

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Phenomenological history; Edmund Husserl; Hayden White; David Carr

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Students and scholars in the fields of history

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