Historical Culture: On the Recoding of an Academic Discipline - Brossura

Cohen, Sande

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0520064534 ISBN 13: 9780520064539

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1988

Riassunto

In a challenge to contemporary historians and cultural critics, this book proposes that the "autonomy" and "necessity" of history, and the concepts of "historicity" and "historicality," are academic myths which block critical access to the reality of the present. For Professor Cohen, narrative history promotes a false comparability of past and present, which renders the present unknowable.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Sande Cohen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and teaches at the California Institute of Arts.

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"It is the first thorough semiological analysis of historical discourse, and it is the most original contribution to historiographical theory since Paul Ricoeur'sTime and Narrative. Moreover, its implications extend far beyond the confines of historical studies. Literary critics and theorists and social scientists as well will have to come to terms with the uncomfortable truths revealed in this book. A brilliant achievement."Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz

"This book forces one to come to terms with its provocative claims and to seek a better formulation of the nature and value of historical inquiry."Dominick Lacapra,American Historical Review

"No historian who reads and comprehends this book will write in the same way again. . .Historical Culture has the potential of becoming the major historiographical work of this decade."Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520064534
• ISBN 13: 9780520064539
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 363
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile