Why Bother with History? (eBook)

Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations

Beverley C. Southgate (Autor)

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2013
200 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-317-87527-7 (ISBN)

Infos

. Why Bother With History? argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire. Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.11.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
• ISBN-10: 1-317-87527-3 / 1317875273
• ISBN-13: 978-1-317-87527-7 / 9781317875277