……………emerged in response to the inability of speculative philosophy (e.g. Classical German Idealism) to solve philosophical problems which had arisen as a result of scientific development.

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• Who says that a historian is required to perform three functions which include scientific, imaginative and literary?
• Who said "Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves."
• The term ‘philosophy of history’ was introduced by ……………..
• "To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions." Who said?
• "Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life."
• "Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
• The ……………encouraged the interdisciplinary approach by which the reader of history they argued, should get the benefit of the knowledge from other disciplines also.
• …………….is an intellectual movement that developed in France in the 1950s and 1960s, in which human culture is analyzed semiotically (i.e., as a system of signs).
• The term ….…………….. itself appeared in the works of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and gave rise, in France, to the "structuralist movement", which spurred the work of such thinkers as Louis Althusser, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, as well as the structural Marxism of Nicos Poulantzas.
• ………………is the broad conclusion of a work which will naturally indicate the essence of the study.