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Writing history: essay on epistemology

Paul Veyne c1984 © Wesleyan University Press
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  • 9780819550675 (hardcover)
  • 9780819560766 (paper)
Subject
  • Methods/Theory
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  • Frontmatter
  • Prologue
  • Part One: The Aim of History
    • I Only a True Account (page 3)
    • II History Does Not Exist (page 15)
    • III Plots, Not Facts or Geometrical Figures (page 31)
    • IV Pure Curiosity about the Specific (page 47)
    • V Intellectual History (page 71)
  • Part Two: Understanding
    • VI Understanding the Plot (page 87)
    • VII Theories, Types, Concepts (page 117)
    • VIII Causality and "Retrodiction" (page 144)
    • IX Consciousness Not the Root of Action (page 176)
  • Part Three: The Progress of History
    • X Lengthening the Questionnaire (page 213)
    • XI The Sublunary and the Human Sciences (page 236)
    • XII History, Sociology, and Complete History (page 263)
  • Notes (page 291)
  • Index (page 333)
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CS 14.1 (Jan. 1985): 89-90 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28198501%2914%3A1%3C89%3AVOHIWE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
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