History as Art and as Science: Twin Vistas on the Past

by H. Stuart Hughes

Overview

"Professor Hughes offers an earnest warning: 'Unless there is some emotional tie, some elective affinity linking the student to his subject of study, the results will be pedantic and perfunctory.' In other words, it is only a step from the sublime to the meticulous. Those eager to guard against that sad descent will find History as Art and as Science a guide, a tonic, and an inspiration. Its short, electrifying essays are so magnificently sane and persuasive they should be required reading for every student who contemplates a major in history."—Geoffrey Bruun, Saturday Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226359168
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	12/15/1975
Series:	Midway Reprint Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
I. What the Historian Thinks He Knows
II. History, the Humanities, and Anthropological Change
III. History and Psychoanalysis: The Explanation of Motive
IV. The Sweep of the Narrative Line
V. Is Contemporary History Real History?