Why History? Ethics and Postmodernity
1999 | 188 | ISBN: 0415164168 , 0415206324 | PDF | 1 Mb
Why History is each introduction to the issue of narrative and ethics. Designed to provoke canvassing, the book asks whether a unimpeached knowledge and understanding of the more than is a good thing to be favored with and if so, why. In the context of postmodern times, Why History suggests that the goal of 'learning lessons from the past' is indeed learning lessons from stories written ~ the agency of historians and others. If the beyond as history has no foundation, have power to anything ethical be gained from narrative?Why History presents liberating challenges to record and ethics, proposing that we take reached an emancipatory moment which is well remote from the 'end of history'....
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