Thinking History
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Thinking history is thinking historically performed. A vast variety of themes are explicated, not imaginatively, not analytically. This book covers surprises such as these: paradox, liar-paradox, philosophy, and mathematics, prudential wisdom of hiding in secrecy from public one’s meritorious deeds, dialogues with scientific atheists. The volume is round up in joy of children singing these themes of thinking history. All this shows how common days are full of things unpredictable yet all coherent in fact. This book has no analytical summary, as history has no summary. This book is open-coherent as timely story-thinking on life’s way. Besides, importantly, this book packs thinking themes with vivacious expressive poetry all surprising yet coherent. This book thus matches history all surprising yet coherent in thinking. Here the style of expression is coherent with the content expressed, exactly as history is thinking coherence in a surprising way. Thinking history is historically coherent, as history is thinking coherent quite bodily, concretely, story-told, and musically chanted as thinking.
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This is a deeply beautiful book on history as thinking and thinking as history or “thinking history.” Thinking spreads deep into time on all themes thinkable, including scientific analyses, self-reflections, dilemmas, paradoxes, and life-essential prudence. Besides, history involves historical process; likewise, this book historically involves its writing process in its own content reflected on. Reading this book reads thinking history as such.
About the Author
Dr. Ruei-hog Tang is a vigorous instructor of history in Chinese Culture University , Taipei , Taiwan . He won four Best Teacher’s Awards. He is well-known for his expertise in world history and in the philosophy of history. He has published a monograph, R. G. Collingwood’s Hermeneutics of History (NY: Nova Science, 2013). The present volume elucidates his own philosophy of history.