Futures for the Past

Herausgeber: Pihlainen, Kalle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores the entanglements and opportunities of history and historians today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 549mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367251789
• ISBN-10: 0367251787
• Artikelnr.: 56923565

Autorenporträt

Kalle Pihlainen is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Humanities at Tallinn University, Estonia, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research focuses on the theory and philosophy of history as well as on literary and historical culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Futures for the past ('This is a stub') 1. Narrativity and
dialectics revisited 2. Cognitive inadequacy: history and the technocratic
management of an artificial world 3. Tales of pastness and contemporaneity:
on the politics of time in history and anthropology 4. Michael Oakeshott
and Hayden White on the practical and the historical past 5. Hayden White
and Joan W. Scott's feminist history: the practical past, the political
present and an open future 6. The distinction of history: on valuing the
insularity of the historical past 7. The Finnish Twitter war: the Winter
War experienced through the #sota39 project and its implications for
historiography 8. A history didactic experiment: the TV series Anno in a
dramatist perspective