The Future of History

Alun Munslow (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2010
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-230-23241-9 (ISBN)

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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?'.

ALUN MUNSLOW is Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester, UK. He is Series Editor of History: Concepts, Theories and Practice (Pearson), and UK Editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (Taylor and Francis). He has published two books on American history and eight on the nature of history of which the most recent is Narrative and History (Palgrave Macmillan).

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2010
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
ISBN-10	0-230-23241-8 / 0230232418
ISBN-13	978-0-230-23241-9 / 9780230232419
Zustand	Neuware