Why bother with history? : ancient, modern, and postmodern motivations
著者
書誌事項
Why bother with history? : ancient, modern, and postmodern motivations
Longman , Pearson Education, 2000
- : CSD
- : PPR
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-177) and index
内容説明・目次
- 巻冊次
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: PPR ISBN 9780582423909
内容説明
. Why Bother With History?
argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire.
Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.
目次
- 1. History for History's Sake. 2. History and Historical Examples. 3. History and Psychology. Identity: Memory and Forgetting
- Meaning and Purpose. 4. History, Politics and Power. 5. History and Religion. 6. History and Education. 7. Postmodernism, History, and Values. 8. Postmodern History and the Future.
- 巻冊次
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: CSD ISBN 9780582423916
内容説明
In the wake of heated debates on the nature of history, 'Why Bother With History?' considers its very purpose: why should we bother with it anyway? At a time when the subject is under threat both from political 'modernisers' and from some postmodernist theorists, Beverley Southgate argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study.Rejecting ancient and modern aspirations to a history 'for its own sake' produced by supposedly objective and attached authors, Southgate proposes rather that historians' importance lies in their own moral standpoint. Their story of the past facilitates the future we desire.Focusing on history's relationship with:Psychology Politics and Power Religion Education Postmodernityand using global examples from the ancient world to the present, this book is timely and inevitably controversial, challenging many of the assumptions of modernist history.Beverley Southgate is Reader Emeritus, University of Hertfordshire. His many publications include 'History: What and Why?' (1996).
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