At the limits of history : essays on theory and practice / Keith Jenkins.

This collection presents the essential elements of the author's work on history and historiography.

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Main Author: Jenkins, Keith, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : history limited
  • Marxism and historical knowledge : Tony Bennett and the discursive turn
  • Living in time but outside history, living in morality but outside ethics : Postmodernism and Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth
  • Why bother with history?
  • History, the referent and narrative : Reflections on postmodernism now / Perez Zagorin
  • A postmodern reply to Perez Zagorin
  • Rejoinder to a postmodernist / Perez Zagorin
  • Response to a postmodernist : or, a historian's critique of postmodernist critiques of history / Michael C. Coleman
  • Against the historical 'middle ground' : A reply to Michael Coleman
  • On disobedient histories
  • Modernist disavowals and postmodern reminders of the condition of history today : On Jean-François Lyotard
  • Ethical responsibility and the historian : On the possible end of history 'of a certain kind'
  • 'Once upon a time' : On history
  • Postmodernity, the end of history, and Frank Ankersmit
  • The end of the affair : On the irretrievable breakdown of history and ethics
  • 'Nobody does it better' : Radical history and Hayden White
  • Sande Cohen : On the verge of newness
  • Cohen contra Ankersmit.