Historian's Two Bodies
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Ars Historica
Ascetic Priest
Author_Nathan Uglow
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critical historical method
Dans Ce
De Faire
Eighteenth Century French Readers
eighteenth-century historiography
En Garde
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ethical criticism history
Exempla Virtutis
Fiat Lux
French Enlightenment scholarship
George III
Histoire De France
historical epistemology
history of historical practice
Homo Scriptus
Il Ne
Infinite Archive
Jean Balcou
Journal De
Journal Reviews
Lenglet Dufresnoy
Mimetic Desire
Modern Research Project
Moral Examples
National Library
reception of historical texts France
Son Histoire
Ton Ne
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780754602231
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The discipline of history defines itself in terms of proof not trust. However, in the eighteenth century it became embarrassingly clear that the capacity of the past to appear as a totality under the critical control of the present eluded historical practice at every stage from research to judgement and to the critical reception of that judgement. Was history a practical but uncritical resource (the ’Temple of Fame’), or a self-enclosed critical project ever shy of ultimate truth? Technical manuals and journal reviews repeatedly reasserted fundamental criteria for acceptable historical practice, but failed to eradicate confusion between coping with and exploiting the information differentials between historical actors, historians, and readers of historical texts. The Historian’s Two Bodies offers a detailed analysis of this basic problem and its various repercussions for the competing perceptions of the historical task in eighteenth-century France while, importantly, denying itself any historical position free from such difficulties.
Nathan Uglow, University of Reading, UK
