The Ethos of History

Time and Responsibility

Stefan Helgesson, Jayne Svenungsson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-320-7 (ISBN)

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At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for historians and their work? By way of an answer, the contributors to this volume offer up an illuminating collective meditation on the idea of ethos and its relevance for historical practice. These intellectually adventurous essays demonstrate how ethos—a term evoking a society’s “fundamental character” as well as an ethical appeal to knowledge and commitment—can serve as a conceptual lodestar for history today, not only as a narrative, but as a form of consciousness and an ethical-political orientation.

Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English at Stockholm University. He is the author of Writing in Crisis: Ethics and History in Gordimer, Ndebele and Coetzee (2004) and Transnationalism in Southern African Literature (2009), has edited volume four of Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective (2006), and is co-editor (with Pieter Vermeulen) of Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets (2015).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Ethos of History

Stefan Helgesson and Jayne Svenungsson

Chapter 1. Towards a New Ethos of History

Aleida Assmann

Chapter 2. The Vampire, the Undead and the Anxieties of Historical Consciousness

Claudia Lindén and Hans Ruin

Chapter 3. History, Justice and the Time of the Imprescriptible

Victoria Fareld

Chapter 4. Narrating Pasts for Peace? A Critical Analysis of Some Recent Initiatives of Historical Reconciliation through ‘Historical Dialogue’ and ‘Shared History’

Berber Bevernage

Chapter 5. Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History

Joan W. Scott

Chapter 6. Does Time Have a Gender? Queer Temporality, Anachronism, and the Desire for the Past

Kristina Fjelkestam

Chapter 7. ‘The One Who Should Die Is the One Who Shall Live’: Prophetic Temporalities in Contemporary Colonial Brazil

Patricia Lorenzoni

Chapter 8. Radical Time in (Post)Colonial Narratives

Stefan Helgesson

Chapter 9. Engaged History

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Chapter 10. Speakers for the Dead: Digital Memory and the Construction of Identity

Alana M. Vincent

Chapter 11. History Begins in the Future: On Historical Sensibility in the Age of Technology

Zoltán Boldizsár Simon

Afterword

Hans Ruin

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Making Sense of History
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	1-80539-320-0 / 1805393200
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-320-7 / 9781805393207
Zustand	Neuware