The volume begins with what is in common to contemporary phenomenological historians and historiographers. That is the understandings that temporality is the core of human judgment conditioning in its forms how we consciously attend and judge phenomena. For every phenomenological historian or historiographer, all history is an event, a span of time. This time span is not external to the individual, rather forms the content and structure of every judgment of the person. It is the logic used by the individual to structure the phenomenon attended. Rather than the phenomenon being seen as something solely external, it is understood by phenomenologists as also of our immediate awareness and thought. Thus, the phenomenological method discerns all judgment as based upon one's span of attention of inner or outer phenomena.. There is an intentionality to attention. One intends one's own foci. Attention is the temporal duration of that intending. The volume offers a text that enables contemporary historians, graduate students, and even undergraduates who are well taught, to understand both the history of phenomenology as a method of inquiry, and the contemporary practice of phenomenological historical and historiographical thought.

Autorentext

Mark E. Blum , Institut für Geschichte, Universität von Louisville, USA.

Klappentext

The text will present a history of the phenomenological method, with a special focus upon its use in the writing of history and historiography. The inquiry method of phenomenology can be tracked from Aristotle through Hellenism into the Italian Renaissance and Northern European History. A careful focus will be upon twentieth century phenomenology and its turn to the writing of history and historiography.