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.

• List of IllustrationsPreface to the SeriesJörn RüsenIntroduction: What  does "Making Sense of History" mean?Jörn RüsenPART I: MEANINGChapter 1. Memory - Forgetting - HistoryPaul RicoeurChapter 2. How Meaning Came into the World and What Became of ItGünter DuxChapter 3. Sense of History: What does it Mean? With an Outlook onto Reason and SenselessnessJörn RüsenChapter 4. "The Meaning of History": A Modern Construction and Notion?Jörn StückrathChapter 5. The Meaning of History: Enacting Sociocultural CodeJohan GaltungChapter 6. The Three Levels of "Sinnbildung" in Historical WritingFrank R. AnkersmitChapter 7. The Reality of HistoryDavid CarrChapter 8. Language and Historical ExperienceFrank R. AnkdersmitPART II: REPRESENTATIONChapter 9. Flights from History: Reinventing Tradition between the 18th and 19th CenturiesAleida AssmannChapter 10. Memory and Identity: How Memory is Reconstructed after Catastrophic EventsAlessandro CavalliChapter 11. The Material Presence of the Past: Reflections on the Visibility of HistoryDetlef HoffmannChapter 12. Ruins: A Visual Expression of Historical MeaningMoshe BaraschChapter 13. Three Versions of Wallentstein: Differences of Meaning Production between Historiography, Biography, and NovelEberhard LämmertChapter 14. The Arts of Jewish Memory in a Postmodern AgeJames E. YoungBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex of Names

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.

• List of IllustrationsPreface to the SeriesJörn RüsenIntroduction: What  does "Making Sense of History" mean?Jörn RüsenPART I: MEANINGChapter 1. Memory - Forgetting - HistoryPaul RicoeurChapter 2. How Meaning Came into the World and What Became of ItGünter DuxChapter 3. Sense of History: What does it Mean? With an Outlook onto Reason and SenselessnessJörn RüsenChapter 4. "The Meaning of History": A Modern Construction and Notion?Jörn StückrathChapter 5. The Meaning of History: Enacting Sociocultural CodeJohan GaltungChapter 6. The Three Levels of "Sinnbildung" in Historical WritingFrank R. AnkersmitChapter 7. The Reality of HistoryDavid CarrChapter 8. Language and Historical ExperienceFrank R. AnkdersmitPART II: REPRESENTATIONChapter 9. Flights from History: Reinventing Tradition between the 18th and 19th CenturiesAleida AssmannChapter 10. Memory and Identity: How Memory is Reconstructed after Catastrophic EventsAlessandro CavalliChapter 11. The Material Presence of the Past: Reflections on the Visibility of HistoryDetlef HoffmannChapter 12. Ruins: A Visual Expression of Historical MeaningMoshe BaraschChapter 13. Three Versions of Wallentstein: Differences of Meaning Production between Historiography, Biography, and NovelEberhard LämmertChapter 14. The Arts of Jewish Memory in a Postmodern AgeJames E. YoungBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex of Names

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.

• List of IllustrationsPreface to the SeriesJörn RüsenIntroduction: What  does "Making Sense of History" mean?Jörn RüsenPART I: MEANINGChapter 1. Memory - Forgetting - HistoryPaul RicoeurChapter 2. How Meaning Came into the World and What Became of ItGünter DuxChapter 3. Sense of History: What does it Mean? With an Outlook onto Reason and SenselessnessJörn RüsenChapter 4. "The Meaning of History": A Modern Construction and Notion?Jörn StückrathChapter 5. The Meaning of History: Enacting Sociocultural CodeJohan GaltungChapter 6. The Three Levels of "Sinnbildung" in Historical WritingFrank R. AnkersmitChapter 7. The Reality of HistoryDavid CarrChapter 8. Language and Historical ExperienceFrank R. AnkdersmitPART II: REPRESENTATIONChapter 9. Flights from History: Reinventing Tradition between the 18th and 19th CenturiesAleida AssmannChapter 10. Memory and Identity: How Memory is Reconstructed after Catastrophic EventsAlessandro CavalliChapter 11. The Material Presence of the Past: Reflections on the Visibility of HistoryDetlef HoffmannChapter 12. Ruins: A Visual Expression of Historical MeaningMoshe BaraschChapter 13. Three Versions of Wallentstein: Differences of Meaning Production between Historiography, Biography, and NovelEberhard LämmertChapter 14. The Arts of Jewish Memory in a Postmodern AgeJames E. YoungBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex of Names