The Future of History

ISBN-13: 9780230232419 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 320 str.

Alun Munslow

Opis

Deploying a range of key concepts such as scepticism, aesthetics, ethics, standpoint, irony, authorship and a new understanding of truth, The Future of History examines history as a form of knowledge, arguing that in the future the multiple forms of its expression will be as significant as its content.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I The Epistemological Problem for Historians What Do Conventional Historians Believe? Scepticism, Relativism and Ethics Irony Self, Standpoint and Subjectivity PART II Responsibility History and Aesthetics Authorship Form Before Content Experimental History Expressionist History Conclusion Glossary Further Reading Notes Index.

O autorze

ALUN MUNSLOW is Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester, UK. He is Series Editor of History: Concepts, Theories and Practice (Pearson), and UK Editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (Taylor and Francis). He has published two books on American history and eight on the nature of history of which the most recent is Narrative and History (Palgrave Macmillan).

Blurb

In this radical reassessment, Alun Munslow challenges conventional notions of history and offers a new vision of historical thinking and practice. Deploying a range of concepts such as scepticism, aesthetics, ethics, standpoint, irony, authorship and a new understanding of truth, The Future of History examines history as a form of knowledge in itself, arguing that in the future the multiple forms of its expression will be as significant as its content. This thought-provoking, challenging and unique book offers a way forward for history after postmodernism and is essential reading for anyone asking the question 'what is history?'.