2022/12/15 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · #History of Science and Medicine
paper · doi:10.1093/oso/9780197625262.001.0001
openalex publication_date 2022/12/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract What is the value of history for life? And how, if at all, might historians and their work contribute to human flourishing and well-being? Those are the straightforward, if capacious, questions that the distinguished contributors to this volume were asked to consider. The chapters gathered here represent their responses. Each essay considers the value of history for life and its connections to human flourishing from a different standpoint and perspective. The answers are often deeply personal, but collectively they concur in affirming history and the historical craft as tremendous resources for human well-being and of vital importance for our times.