History in the World

Herausgeber: Pihlainen, Kalle

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Questions about the relationship between historical research and contemporary social and practical problems are explored in this volume, with contributions focusing on history's role in the world today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415788632
• ISBN-10: 0415788633
• Artikelnr.: 48950080

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: Historians and 'the current situation' 1. The republic of
historians: historians as nation-builders in Estonia (late 1980s-early
1990s) 2. The 'age of commemoration' as a narrative construct: a critique
of the discourse on the contemporary crisis of memory in France 3. Thinking
the past politically: Palestine, power and pedagogy 4. The ideal of
objectivity and the public role of the historian: some lessons from the
Historikerstreit and the History Wars 5. Calliope's ascent: defragmenting
philosophy of history by rhetoric 6. We are history: the outlines of a
quasi-substantive philosophy of history 7. History, power and visual
communication artefacts