The Ethos of History (eBook, ePUB)

Time and Responsibility
Redaktion: Helgesson, Stefan; Svenungsson, Jayne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805394334
• Artikelnr.: 69695930

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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