History in the world /
Questions about the relationship between historical research and contemporary social and practical problems have posed a challenge to generations of historians, as well as to philosophers and theorists of history. In recent years, views regarding the isolation of academic history from real-world iss...
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2018]
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Historians and `the current situation` / Kalle Pihlainen
- 1. The republic of historians: historians as nation-builders in Estonia (late 1980s-early 1990s) / Marek Tamm
- 2. The `age of commemoration` as a narrative construct: a critique of the discourse on the contemporary crisis of memory in France / Kenan van de Mieroop
- 3. Thinking the past politically: Palestine, power and pedagogy / Claire Norton and Mark Donnelly
- 4. The ideal of objectivity and the public role of the historian: some lessons from the Historikerstreit and the History Wars / Anton Froeyman
- 5. Calliope's ascent: defragmenting philosophy of history by rhetoric / Rik Peters
- 6. We are history: the outlines of a quasi-substantive philosophy of history / Zoltán Boldizsár Simor
- 7. History, power and visual communication artefacts / Katherine Hepworth.