Alun Munslow

The Future of History (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Deploying a range of key 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, arguing that in the future the multiple forms of its expression will be as significant as its content.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137041463
• Artikelnr.: 62722733

Autorenporträt

Alun Munslow is founding and UK Editor of Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. He is Visiting Professor of History and Historical Theory at the University of Chichester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.