The World of Herodotus. - SÉLINCOURT, A. de,
KORTE INHOUD
?The middle decades of the twentieth century are leaving a powerful impression upon the methodology of history. The prominent and probably the most lasting features of this impression are the imperative necessity of looking at history from a world viewpoint, the steady abandonment of the nineteenth century?s logically impossible demand that history should be exclusively scientific, and the rise or decline in reputation of many of history?s eminent personalities, both writers and makers of history, as the result of a more sensible evaluation of the historian?s task, and a more careful investigation and examination of evidence. (?) It is now obvious (?) that the proper method of history is that which synthesises science and art, that creates a unity of thought and expression from the apparent contradiction of the objective and the subjective, that fives as much freedom to the discursiveness of the imagination as the control of the evidence will permit. One of the most interesting results of this new thinking on...
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London, 1962. 302p. 2 maps. Original green cloth with dust wrps. For edgeas well as endpages a bit rust stained. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: SÉLINCOURT, A. de,] [Uitgever: Secker & Warburg] [Jaar: 1962] [Titel: The World of Herodotus.]
