Why History?

Keith Jenkins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-20632-7 (ISBN)

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Why History is an introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether a knowledge and understanding of the past is a good thing to have and if so, why.

Why History is an introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether a good knowledge and understanding of the past is a good thing to have and if so, why. In the context of postmodern times, Why History suggests that the goal of 'learning lessons from the past' is actually learning lessons from stories written by historians and others. If the past as history has no foundation, can anything ethical be gained from history?
Why History presents liberating challenges to history and ethics, proposing that we have reached an emancipatory moment which is well beyond the 'end of history'.

Keith Jenkins is Reader in History at University College Chichester and author of Rethinking History (1991), On ‘What is History?’ From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White (1995) and The Postmodern History Reader (1997).

Introduction; Part 1 On the end of metanarratives; Chapter 1 On Jacques Derrida; Chapter 2 On Jean Baudrillard; Chapter 3 On Jean-François Lyotard; Part 2 On the end of ‘proper’ history; Chapter 4 On Richard Evans; Chapter 5 On Hayden White; Chapter 6 On Frank Ankersmit; Part 3 Beyond histories and ethics; Chapter 7 On Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth; Chapter 8 On David Harlan; Conclusion;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.9.1999
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	0-415-20632-4 / 0415206324
ISBN-13	978-0-415-20632-7 / 9780415206327
Zustand	Neuware