Experience and history: phenomenological perspectives on the historical world

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Introduction: On the Phenomenology of History 1. The Phenomenological Question 2. Representation, Memory, Experience 3. Phenomenological Perspectives: an Outline Chapter I: The Varieties of Experience 1. On the Concept of Experience and its Curious Fate 2. Experience and Innocence: The Empiricists 3. Experience in Kant and Hegel 4. So Far: Three Concepts of Experience 5. Dilthey, Husserl and a New Word: Erlebnis 6. From Mysticism to Pragmatism: Buber, James, Dewey 7. Taking Stock Again: How Many Concepts of Experience? 8. Experience and Foundationalism 9. Summing Up: Four Concepts of Experience Chapter II: Experience and History 1. The Two Relevant Senses of Experience 2. Husserl on Temporality 3. Time and Experience 4. Intentionality 5. Objects, Events, World 6. Others and The Human World 7. Experience and Historicity 8. Being with Others 9. and Community 10. Community and Historicity 11. History and Retrospection 12. The Experience of Historical Events 13. Levels of Temporality 14. The Significance of These Examples Chapter III: Experience and The Philosophy of History 1. Taking Stock 2. Experience, Representation, Memory 3. Narrative Representation 4. Experience and Memory 5. What Kind of Philosophy of History Is This? 6. The Epistemology of History 7. The Metaphysics of History Chapter IV: The Metaphysics of History and Its Critics 1. The Project of Re-reading the Philosophy of History 2. The Rise and Fall of the Classical Philosophy of History: The Standard View 3. Hegel and his Alleged Predecessors 4. Hegel's Lectures and Their Reception 5. Twentieth Century Reactions Chapter V: A Phenomenological Re-reading of the Classical Philosophy of History 1. Danto and 2. Narrative and Everyday Life 3. Practical Narrative 4. Narrative and The Classical Philosophy of History 5. Narrative and The Social 6. The Project of Re-reading 7. Marx and Marxists 8. Hegel's Lectures Again 9. History and the Phenomenology of Spirit 10. Hegel as Reformer 11. Hegel and Beyond 12. Conclusion Chapter VI: Phenomenologists on History 1. The Emergence of Nineteenth Century Historicism 2. Historicism and Marxism 3. Husserl and Dilthey 4. Husserl's Response to Historicism 5. Husserl's Crisis and a Different View of History 6. Philosophy of History in the Crisis 7. Phenomenology and The Epistemology of History 8. Phenomenology and Historicity in the Crisis 9. Coda: French Phenomenology of History 10. Conclusion Chapter VII: Space, Time and History 1. Time Zones: Phenomenological Reflections on Cultural Time a. Space and Place, Home and Beyond b. Lived Space, Lived Time c. The Universal Now d. Time and The Other e. Local Time, East and West f. Conclusion: Cultural Time and the Contemporary World 2. Place and Time: On the Interplay of Historical Points of View a. Place b. The Reality of Others c. Time d. e. Narrative f. Conclusion Chapter VIII: Experience, Narrative and Historical Knowledge 1. History, Fiction and Human Time a. Questioning the Distinction Between History and Fiction b. A Response c. Fiction and Falsehood d. Knowledge and Imagination e. Narrative and Reality f. An Example g. Conclusion 2. Narrative Explanation 3. Epistemology and Ontology of Narrative BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX