
Why History?
Ethics and postmodernity
Keith Jenkins(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 9. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-415-16416-0 (ISBN)
Description
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'.
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'.
Reviews / Votes
'This is Jenkinss best book to date and should be read by anybody who wants to understand postmodernist attitudes to history.' - Christopher Parker, Literature and History Journal, Vol. 10, no.1More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
General
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-16416-0 (9780415164160)
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Book
09/1999
1st Edition
Routledge
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Person
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).
Content
Introduction; Part 1 On the end of metanarratives; Chapter 1 On Jacques Derrida; Chapter 2 On Jean Baudrillard; Chapter 3 On Jean-Francois 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;