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. INDICE: 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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23241-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 06/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés