Название: What is History?Автор: E. H. Carr
Издательство: Penguin Classics
Год: 2018
ISBN: 9780241351901
Формат: epub, pdf(conv)
Страниц: 272
Размер: 10,6 mb
Язык: English
In What is History? Carr approached the question of historical objectivity from another angle (though without using the term ‘objectivity’ in this context). He examined the resemblances and differences in method between history and the natural sciences. The resemblances proved to be greater than the differences. Natural scientists no longer see themselves as establishing universal laws by induction from observed facts, but as engaging in discoveries through the interaction of hypotheses and facts. And history, like the natural sciences, is concerned not as is sometimes supposed with unique events but with the interaction between the unique and the general. The historian is committed to generalization, and indeed ‘the historian is not really interested in the unique, but in what is general in the unique.’