Why Bother with History?
Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations
Nonfiction, History, Reference, Historiography
| Author: | Beverley C. Southgate | ISBN: | 9781317875260 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | November 4, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Beverley C. Southgate |
| ISBN: | 9781317875260 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | November 4, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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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.
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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.
