Imprisoned By History - Aspects of Historicized Life

Zusatztext "Martin Davies' Imprisoned by History is an extremely important text. By demolishing epistemic and social myths about history and its social functions! it joins many other texts in today's arts and humanities that struggle for an 'outside' working from the 'inside' of academia."- Sande Cohen! Emeritus! California Institute of the Arts! USA Informationen zum Autor Martin L. Davies works in the School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, UK, having previously lectured in the School of Modern Languages. Besides numerous articles he has written Identity or History? Marcus Herz and the End of the Enlightenment (1995) and Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society (Routledge, 2006). Klappentext Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture. Zusammenfassung Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. 'Shaking the respect for history'. 2. Imprisoned by History. 3. The Historical Unconscious. 4. History: A Self-centred Science. 5. History: Deception as Cultural Practice. Appendix. References. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Davies, Martin (University of Leicester Davies, Martin L Davies, Martin L. Davies
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2009
• EAN: 9780415995207
• ISBN: 978-0-415-99520-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Routledge Approaches to History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History: theory & methods, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, Social and cultural history, History and Archaeology, History: theory and methods