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The Ethos of History: Time and Responsibility

By Jayne Svenungsson , Stefan Helgesson

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2018
ISBN
1785338846, 978-1785338847
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1317222 bytes)
Series
Making Sense of History
Pages
230\231
Topic
History
Time added
2019-10-27 16:00:41

Description

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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