Historiographic Schools

Title
Historiographic Schools
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
Lloyd, Christopher
Editor
Editor(s): Aviezer Tucker
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Place of publication
Chichester, United Kingdom
Edition
1
Series
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
UNE publication id
une:2267
Abstract
The present and past of historiography is often presented in the literature as a pattern of clusterings of writers and their key concepts into what have become known as “schools” or “traditions” or “discourses” or “networks,” or “approaches” of thinking about how to write historiography. Within this literature these terms have appeared in a somewhat unexamined way. The complex relationships between history, philosophy, and historiography has, at least in many and various accounts by historians of historiography (such as Thompson 1942; Collingwood 1946; White 1973; Breisach 1983; Kelley 1991; Iggers 1997; Bentley 1997; Burns and Rayment-Pickard 2000), given rise over time to a dense, changing pattern of clusters of thought.Clusters that are variously called “schools,” “traditions,” “discourses,” “approaches,” and “networks” of thought (hereafter all called “schools”) seem to be ubiquitous in the history of ideas generally (not just historiography), at least as revealed by students of the history of ideas (cf. Collins 1998). That is, intellectuals apparently rarely have been isolated individuals without some sort of group affinity that situates and influences their thinking. Indeed, it's a truism that intellectual thought (indeed, all thought) always depends to a large degree upon prior and related contemporary thought. The history of thought is an evolutionary process.
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Citation
A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, p. 371-380
ISBN
1405149086
9781405149082
Start page
371
End page
380

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