At the Limits of History : Essays on Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415472357 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 336 str.

Jenkins Keith; Keith Jenkins

Opis

Keith Jenkins' work on historical theory is renowned; this collection presents the essential elements of his work over the last fifteen years.

Spis treści

Foreword, Hayden White  1. Introduction: History Limited  2. Marxism and Historical Knowledge: Tony Bennett and the Discursive Turn  3. Living In Time but Outside History, Living in Morality but Outside Ethics: Postmodernism and Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth  4. Why Bother With History?  5. History, the Referent, and Narrative: Reflections on Postmodernism Now Perez Zagorin  6. A Postmodern Reply to Perez Zagorin  7. Rejoinder to a Postmodernist Perez Zagorin  8. Response to a Postmodernist: or, a historian’s critique of postmodernist critiques of history Michael C. Coleman  9. Against the Historical ‘Middle Ground’: A Reply to Michael Coleman   10. On Disobedient Histories  11. Modernist Disavowals and Postmodern Reminders of the Condition of History Today: on Jean Francois Lyotard  12. Ethical Responsibility and the Historian: on the Possible End of History ‘of a Certain Kind’  13. Once Upon A Time: On History  14. Postmodernity, the End of History, and Frank Ankersmit  15. The End of the Affair: On the Irretrievable Breakdown of History and Ethics  16. ‘Nobody Does It Better’: Radical History and Hayden White  17. Sande Cohen: On the Verge of Newness  18. Cohen contra Ankersmit  Afterword Alun Munslow

O autorze

Keith Jenkins is Emeritus Professor, University of Chichester. He is the author of five books on historical theory and co-editor (with Alun Munslow) of The Nature of History Reader and (with Sue Morgan and Alun Munslow) Manifestos for History, all published by Routledge.