Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface to the Series
Jörn Rüsen

Introduction: What  does "Making Sense of History" mean?
Jörn Rüsen

PART I: MEANING

Chapter 1. Memory - Forgetting - History
Paul Ricoeur

Chapter 2. How Meaning Came into the World and What Became of It
Günter Dux

Chapter 3. Sense of History: What does it Mean? With an Outlook onto Reason and Senselessness
Jörn Rüsen

Chapter 4. "The Meaning of History": A Modern Construction and Notion?
Jörn Stückrath

Chapter 5. The Meaning of History: Enacting Sociocultural Code
Johan Galtung

Chapter 6. The Three Levels of "Sinnbildung" in Historical Writing
Frank R. Ankersmit

Chapter 7. The Reality of History
David Carr

Chapter 8. Language and Historical Experience
Frank R. Ankdersmit

PART II: REPRESENTATION

Chapter 9. Flights from History: Reinventing Tradition between the 18th and 19th Centuries
Aleida Assmann

Chapter 10. Memory and Identity: How Memory is Reconstructed after Catastrophic Events
Alessandro Cavalli

Chapter 11. The Material Presence of the Past: Reflections on the Visibility of History
Detlef Hoffmann

Chapter 12. Ruins: A Visual Expression of Historical Meaning
Moshe Barasch

Chapter 13. Three Versions of Wallentstein: Differences of Meaning Production between Historiography, Biography, and Novel
Eberhard Lämmert

Chapter 14. The Arts of Jewish Memory in a Postmodern Age
James E. Young

Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names

About the Author

Jörn Rüsen was Professor of Modern History at the Universities of Bochum and Bielefeld for many years. From 1994 to 1997 he was the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF). Since 1997 he has been President of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen.