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History and Theory after the Fall : An Essay on Interpretation by Fred Weinstein (1990, Hardcover)
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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226886069
ISBN-139780226886060
eBay Product ID (ePID)66600
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
Publication NameHistory and Theory after the Fall : an Essay on Interpretation
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1990
SubjectHistoriography, General
TypeTextbook
AuthorFred Weinstein
Subject AreaHistory
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN89-020486
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal901
Table Of ContentPreface Introduction 1. The Problem of Interpretation 2. The Heterogeneity Problem in Practice and Theory 3. The Role of Ideology in a Heterogeneous World 4. The Persistence of Objects in a Heterogeneous World Notes Index
SynopsisIn this ambitious work, Fred Weinstein confronts the obstacles that have increasingly frustrated our attempts to explain social and historical reality. Traditionally, we have relied on history and social theory to describe the ways people understand the world they live in. But the ordering explanations we have always used--derived from the classical social theories originally forged by Marx, Tocqueville, Weber, Durkheim, Freud--have collapsed. In the wake of this collapse or "fall," the rival claims of fiction, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, and history have created the dilemma of radical relativism, the prospect of multiple interpretations of any complex historical event. The basic strategy of social theory and the social sciences--the search for underlying unities--proves so inherently contradictory and has provided so little in the way of reliable knowledge of social and historical relationships that to many critics it seems no longer worth pursuing. Weinstein enters the debate by rejecting any search for underlying structural unities, dynamic or social, through which historians have attempted to find continuity with the past. He looks instead to ideological processes, to the construction of successive and changing versions of reality that mediate between the power of fantasy on the one side and the power of the social world on the other. He argues further that the need to use ideological constructs in this way accounts for the heterogeneous and changing content of social movements and for the persistent need people have always had for authoritative leaders, even in democratized societies. He suggests that people have historically been able to take a step away from leaders only by substituting the possession of objects such as property or money. This book is a breakthrough in poststructuralist theory that is sure to stimulate considerable discussion, especially about the shape of the social sciences and the future of historical interpretation.
LC Classification NumberD16.9.W39 1990
