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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53739#.VNHE-SzQrzE Author(s)    Nicola Conati Affiliation(s) Department of Humanities, University of Trento, Trento, Italy . ABSTRACT In this brief consideration of mine, trying to remain as faithful as possible to the texts taken into exam, I will first try to introduce the concept of history as contemporary history in the thinking of Benedetto Croce, whereas the second part of the reasoning will point toward proving and meditating on how such concept crosses the whole philosophical system of the Italian intellectual. What does contemporary history mean according to Benedetto Croce? Why is the spirit of the historian fundamental in the description of this concept? What kind of connection exists between story and contemporary history? What does pathology of history mean? How does the concept of contemporary history relate to that of awareness, of fin...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53739#.VNB-KSzQrzE Author(s)    Nicola Conati Affiliation(s) Department of Humanities, University of Trento, Trento, Italy . ABSTRACT In this brief consideration of mine, trying to remain as faithful as possible to the texts taken into exam, I will first try to introduce the concept of history as contemporary history in the thinking of Benedetto Croce, whereas the second part of the reasoning will point toward proving and meditating on how such concept crosses the whole philosophical system of the Italian intellectual. What does contemporary history mean according to Benedetto Croce? Why is the spirit of the historian fundamental in the description of this concept? What kind of connection exists between story and contemporary history? What does pathology of history mean? How does the concept of contemporary history relate to that of awareness, o...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52495#.VJog_cCAM4 Author(s)    Alejandro Vera Affiliation(s) Music Institute, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile . ABSTRACT During the past century, Edmundo O’Gorman, Tzvetan Todorov, Enrique Dussel and other scholars pointed out the Eurocentric perspective implied in traditional narratives about the discovery of America, most of which intended to confirm Europe as the center of world history and culture. At the same time, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hayden White and others argued for the mythical character of history. According to them, even though historians attempted to assemble documentary evidence obje...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48989#.VJd9DcCAM4 Author(s) Ruei-Hong Tang Affiliation(s) History of Department, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan . ABSTRACT This paper cautiously affirms history as real, in three stages: we begin, 1) by briefly reviewing the historical swings between the objective view of history and the relative view of history, followed by, 2) our careful inquiry into how history is composed by “I”, “here”, and “now” spontaneously spreading in time, and finally, 3) in the light of this consideration we argue for our cautious answer, “history is real”, as 4), we define “caution” and “real”. KEYWOR...