25 June 2006 - Sunday
An observation
It can be strangely difficult, even in the age of the Internet, to find intelligible explanations of certain concepts in historiography -- especially concepts that tend to go by longish German names. A Google search supposedly limited to English-language sites tends to return only German-language results -- and not particularly relevant-looking results, at that.
If even Google can't find it, how am I supposed to understand it?
| Posted by Wilson at 15:28 Central | TrackBack| Report submitted to the Humanities Desk
Well, to provide examples that I think I actually do understand fairly well, and which are relatively easy to define, there are Geistesgeschichte and Geisteswissenschaften. The latter, of course, is not just an historiographic term.
The thoughts of Wilson on 26 June 2006 - 12:15 Central+ + + + +
Those are good German words... now how about the one you were referring to in your post? Do you have some rule that you never give out anything you don't completely understand?
(Don't worry, I'm not offering to help you.)
The thoughts of Sharon on 26 June 2006 - 22:41 Central+ + + + +
*Grin* As it happens, I usually try very hard not to let people know exactly where my knowledge stops.
The thoughts of Wilson on 27 June 2006 - 13:28 Central+ + + + +
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Too bad about the search, but do you mind sharing the longish German name, just for fun?
The thoughts of Sharon on 25 June 2006 - 22:30 Central+ + + + +