Highlights from History and Theory: A Selection of Articles from 2005–2009
May 2009
This virtual issue presents a selection of articles from recent issues of History and Theory that shows the diversity of the journal's offerings in its three main categories: articles, forums, and review essays. The subject matter is wide-ranging, dealing, among others, with questions such as: should we choose not to look at Holocaust atrocity photography? Does culture evolve? Is there room for God in the study of history? The issue also includes review essays on two major twentieth-century thinkers: William H. McNeill and Paul Ricoeur, as well as on five books about totalitarianism, and another on five books about the self. All in all, they add up to a stimulating collection that reveals the vibrancy of current philosophy and theory of history.
CONTENTS
Susan A. Crane, “Choosing Not to Look: Representation, Repatriation, and Holocaust Atrocity Photography,” History and Theory 47, no. 3 (2008).
Eelco Runia, “Spots of Time,” History and Theory 45, no. 3 (2006).
Gabrielle M. Spiegel, “Revising the Past / Revisiting the Present: How Change Happens in Historiography,” History and Theory 46, no. 4 (2007).
Steven G. Smith, “Historical Meaningfulness in Shared Action,” History and Theory 48, no. 1 (2009).
Forum: Does Culture Evolve?
W. G. Runciman, “Culture Does Evolve,” History and Theory 44, no. 1 (2005).
Joseph Fracchia and R. C. Lewontin, “The Price of Metaphor,” History and Theory 44, no. 1 (2005).
W. G. Runciman, “Rejoinder to Fracchia and Lewontin,” History and Theory 44, no. 1 (2005).
Forum: God, Science, and Historical Explanation
Tor Egil Førland, “Acts of God? Miracles and Scientific Explanation,” History and Theory 47, no. 4 (2008).
Brad S. Gregory, “No Room for God? History, Science, Metaphysics, and the Study of Religion,” History and Theory 47, no. 4 (2008).
Tor Egil Førland, “Historiography Without God: A Reply to Gregory,” History and Theory 47, no. 4 (2008).
Patrick Manning, “William H. McNeill: Lucretius and Moses in World History,” History and Theory 46, no. 3 (2007).
Anson Rabinbach, review of Tzvetan Todorov’s Hope and Memory, Richard Overy’s The Dictators, Henry Rousso’s Stalinism and Nazism, Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin’s Stalinism and Nazism, and Slavoj Zizek’s Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?, History and Theory 45, no. 1 (2006).
Gregory S. Brown, “Am ‘I’ a “Post-Revolutionary Self’? Historiography of the Self in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution,” History and Theory 47, no. 2 (2008).