Keith Jenkins

Why History? (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Why History?" is a compelling introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether and why a good knowledge and understanding of the past is desirable. In the context of current postmodern thinking, Keith Jenkins suggests that the goal of "learning lessons from the past" actually means learning lessons from stories written by historians and others. If the past as history has no foundation, can anything ethical be gained from history? Daring and controversial, "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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134712359
• Artikelnr.: 39265120

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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