The Future of History
- ISBN-10
- 1137041463
- ISBN-13
- 9781137041463
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-07-30
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Author
- Alun Munslow
Description
In this radical reassessment, Alun Munslow challenges conventional notions of history and offers a new vision of historical thinking and practice. Deploying a range of 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 in itself, arguing that in the future the multiple forms of its expression will be as significant as its content. This thought-provoking, challenging and unique book offers a way forward for history after postmodernism and is essential reading for anyone asking the question 'what is history?'.
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