Why Bother with History?
Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations
Seiten
2000
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-42391-6 (ISBN)
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-42391-6 (ISBN)
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This text looks at the debates concerning the value of history, it offers perspectives from across the centuries. It covers ethical lessons from history, education and schooling and shows how various regimes have used and abused history for their own ends.
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).
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).
| Verlagsort | Harlow |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 242 x 164 mm |
| Gewicht | 447 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-582-42391-0 / 0582423910 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-582-42391-6 / 9780582423916 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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