The Future of History

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?''.>

Sommario

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.

Info autore

Alun Munslow

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alun Munslow
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.07.2010
• EAN: 9780230232419
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23241-9
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; B, History, Historiography, Historiography and Method