The future of history
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The future of history
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In this radical reassessment, Alun Munslow challenges conventional notions of history and offers a new vision of historical thinking and practice. Deploying a range of concepts such as scepticism, aesthetics, ethics, standpoint, irony, authorship and a new understanding of truth, The Future of History examines history as a form of knowledge in itself, arguing that in the future the multiple forms of its expression will be as significant as its content. This thought-provoking, challenging and unique book offers a way forward for history after postmodernism and is essential reading for anyone asking the question 'what is history?'.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- PART I The Epistemological Problem for Historians.- What Do Conventional Historians Believe?.- Scepticism, Relativism and Ethics.- Irony.- Self, Standpoint and Subjectivity.- PART II Responsibility.- History and Aesthetics.- Authorship.- Form Before Content.- Experimental History.- Expressionist History.- Conclusion.- Glossary.- Further Reading.- Notes.- Index.
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