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Why History?
Author(s): Keith Jenkins (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: September 9, 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 248 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415164168
- ISBN-13: 9780415164160
Book Description
Why History is an introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether a good knowledge and understanding of the past is a good thing to have and if so, why. In the context of postmodern times, Why History suggests that the goal of ‘learning lessons from the past’ is actually learning lessons from stories written by historians and others. If the past as history has no foundation, can anything ethical be gained from history?
Why History presents liberating challenges to history and ethics, proposing that we have reached an emancipatory moment which is well beyond the ‘end of history’.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘This is Jenkinss best book to date and should be read by anybody who wants to understand postmodernist attitudes to history.’ – Christopher Parker, Literature and History Journal, Vol. 10, no.1
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