| Titre | The theory of history : East and West | |
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| Auteur | Ernest Gellner | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 31, no 2-3, avril-septembre 1990 Regards sur l'anthropologie soviétique | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | I |
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| Page | 141-151 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Ernest Gellner, The theory of history: East and West.
This essay tries to bring into the open the nature of existing disagreements between the Western and Soviet Marxist vision of history. My suggestion is that a Western theory of history is crystallizing at present, and that it is materialist in its base-line typology, but not in its theory. It has no consensual theory, but its Fragestellung is materialist, though it does not prejudge the nature of the answer which is to be proposed. But I do not wish to suggest that this view is, even tacitly, embraced by the majority of Western social scientists and historians. Many embrace a semantic and largely anti-theoretical idealism of the kind I have briefly sketched out. A larger number still, notably amongst historians, are untheoretical or anti-theoretical, and are inclined to consider any pursuit of a general historical theory as un-professional. Many philosophers also work on the assumption that both historical context and theory are irrelevant to their own pursuits. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1990_num_31_2_2211 |
