In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century, this title confronts several basic assumptions about the nature of history.
In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century, this title confronts several basic a...
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.
Deploying a range of key concepts such as scepticism, aesthetics, ethics, standpoint, irony, authorship and a new understanding of truth, The Futu...
Provides an introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas, and theories, which have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered pace since the 1990s. This book examines the key concepts for the history through the ideas of leading thinkers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Croce, and Collingwood.
Provides an introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas, and theories, which have prompted the rethi...
Surveying the latest research, this welcome second edition of Alun Munslow's successful Deconstructing History provides an excellent introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history.
This new edition has been updated and revised and, along with the original discussion material and topics, now:
assesses the claims of history as a form of 'truthful' explanation
discusses the limits of conventional historical thinking and practice, and the responses of the 'new empiricists' to the book's central arguments
examines the arrival of...
Surveying the latest research, this welcome second edition of Alun Munslow's successful Deconstructing History provides an excellent intro...
Please explain why you think about and write history as you do? Collecting together the responses to this question from 15 of the world's foremost historians and theorists, this book represents a powerful reflection on and intervention in the historiographical field.
Please explain why you think about and write history as you do? Collecting together the responses to this question from 15 of the world's foremost his...
In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century, this title confronts several basic assumptions about the nature of history.
In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century, this title confronts several basic a...
This book offers an understanding and analysis of the aesthetics of historying through the specific concepts and process of the fabricated, factitious, factional, factious, factitive, factive, factualist, fictitious, fictive and the figurative. These concepts create the(ir) connection(s) between "the past" and ‘history" hitherto rethink the nature of "the historical past." There are many different available ‘forms’ of histories that shape the minds of historians when they deploy their historical imaginations through "the past(s) via their preferred history creations."...
This book offers an understanding and analysis of the aesthetics of historying through the specific concepts and process of the fabricated, fact...
