Why Bother with History?: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern MotivationsRoutledge, 2013 M11 4 - 200 pages .Why Bother With History? argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire. Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature. |
Contents
History and historical examples | |
History and psychology Identity memory and forgetting meaning and purpose | |
History politics and power | |
History and religion | |
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Why Bother with History?: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations Beverley C. Southgate No preview available - 2014 |
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