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The Future of History

By Alun Munslow

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
0230232426, 9780230232426
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1439304 bytes)
Edition
2010
Pages
320\312
Time added
2022-09-27 12:50:00

Description

Deploying a range of key 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, arguing that in the future the multiple forms of its expression will be as significant as its content. Cover Contents Preface Introduction Part I 1 The Epistemological Problem for Historians 2 What Do Conventional Historians Believe? 3 Scepticism, Relativism and Ethics 4 Irony 5 Self, Standpoint and Subjectivity Part II 6 Responsibility 7 History and Aesthetics 8 Authorship 9 Form before Content 10 Experimental History 11 Expressionist History Conclusion Notes Glossary Further Reading Index

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