The Muse of History and the Science of Culture

• Main Author: Carneiro, Robert L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; History, general.

Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'? Does it have a pattern? Is it fraught with `meaning'? Can we discern its trends? What determines its course? In short, can a substantial and coherent philosophy of history be devised that offers a...