Jörg van Norden – Geschichtstheorie ist eine der vier Säulen der Geschichtsdidaktik. Geschichtsdidaktik überlegt, welchen Bildungswert Geschichte hat und um diese Frage beantworten zu können, muss sie klären, was Geschichte überhaupt ist. Geschichtstheorie klärt, was Geschichte ist. Die Frage nach Theorien in der Geschichte ist der Frage, was Geschichte ist, nachzuordnen.
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Jörg van Norden – Theory of history is one of four pillars in history didactics. History didactics considers the educational value of history and before giving an estimate must first clarify what history really is. Theory of history explains what history is. The question of theories in history should be subordinate to the question of what history is.
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Bärbel Völkel – In diesem Beitrag wird die These zur Diskussion gestellt, dass in die europäischen Geschichtstheorien, zumindest in den Historismus als die nach wie vor kontextuell relevante theoretische Grundlage der Nationalstaatsgeschichte, Weißsein als unsichtbare hegemoniale Norm eingeschrieben ist und diese Norm bis heute zu Lasten der People of Colour geht.
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Bärbel Völkel – This paper explores the argument that whiteness is inscribed as an invisible hegemonic norm in European theories of history, particularly in historicism as the still contextually relevant theoretical basis of nation-state history, and that this norm continues to the detriment of people of color to this day.
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Uwe Walter – Im System des akademischen Hantierens mit Geschichte dient Theorie offensichtlich (auch) der Distinktion. Das gilt für ihren Gebrauch wie ihren Nichtgebrauch: Für viele sehr eng am Material arbeitende oder dieses gar erst erschließende Althistoriker, für Monumenta-Mediävisten oder tief in die Akten eintauchende Diplomatiehistoriker und Editoren gehört die Absage an „theoretische Höhenflüge“, konzeptionellen Apriorismus oder die Unterordnung der Quellen unter eine „aufgepfropfte“, gar fachfremde Theorie zum professionellen Selbstverständnis und wirkt in diesem Sinn auch gruppenbildend.
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Uwe Walter – In the system of handling history academically, theory is clearly (also) a matter of distinction. This holds true whether theory is used or not: For many ancient historians who work closely with the material or indeed even render it accessible, for Monumenta medievalists or historians of diplomacy and editors who immerse themselves in the files, rejecting “theoretical flights of fancy”, conceptual apriorism or the subordination of sources to an “add-on” theory or even one that is extraneous to the discipline is all part of a professional self-understanding and in this sense has a community-building effect.
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Edoardo Tortarolo – La teoria della storia ha avuto a lungo una cattiva fama. Tra gli storici praticanti, impegnati nell’analisi di una questione specifica, è prevalsa a lungo la convinzione che attraverso il ricorso sistematico a un insieme di fonti fosse possibile narrare compiutamente una vicenda del passato e, così facendo, presentare ai lettori un’analisi, implicita o esplicita, di un aspetto della vita dell’umanità del passato. Questa visione fortemente empirica e quindi anti-teorica ha prodotto per tutto il Novecento grandi sforzi per comprendere la genesi di realtà rilevanti della vita umana così come palesi distorsioni, volontarie o involontarie, basate sulla manipolazione ideologica delle fonti.
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Edoardo Tortarolo – For a long time, the theory of history has had a bad reputation. Among practising historians engaged in the analysis of a specific issue, the conviction has long prevailed that through systematic recourse to a set of sources it was possible to narrate a past event in full and, in so doing, to present readers with an implicit or explicit analysis of an aspect of human life from the past. This strongly empirical and therefore anti-theoretical view resulted in considerable efforts throughout the twentieth century to understand the genesis of relevant realities of human life. It must be acknowledged that it also led to blatant distortions, whether intentional or unintentional, based on the ideological manipulation of sources.
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João Ohara – Histories written from feminist, post- or decolonial, and racial-critical perspectives are powerful examples of the kind of polyphonic historical understanding about which Ethan Kleinberg invites us to think. However, these histories and the theories that make them possible are still considered “special cases” apart from mainstream historiography and theory of history proper. A broad and inclusive definition of theory and philosophy of history can help us overcome this problem.
Anna Karla – The following text describes the relationship between history and theory in five interventions. The fact that it by no means covers the topic exhaustively lies in the matter itself rather than the brevity of the form. Theory of history unfolds in the course of conversation. Its allies are provisional ways of thinking and tentative expressions rather than an architecture of solid concepts.
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