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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Keith Jenkins |
ISBN: | 0415164168 9780415164160 0415206324 9780415206327 9780203978276 0203978277 |
OCLC Number: | 39677732 |
Description: | x, 232 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | 1. On Jacques Derrida -- 2. On Jean Baudrillard -- 3. On Jean-François Lyotard -- 4. On Richard Evans -- 5. On Hayden White -- 6. On Frank Ankersmit -- 7. On Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth -- 8. On David Harlan. |
Responsibility: | Keith Jenkins. |
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Abstract:
Why History is an introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether a knowledge and understanding of the past is a good thing to have and if so, why.
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'This is Jenkinss best book to date and should be read by anybody who wants to understand postmodernist attitudes to history.' - Christopher Parker, Literature and History Journal, Vol. 10, no.1
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- History -- Philosophy.
- Histoire -- Philosophie.
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- Geschichtsbewusstsein
- Geschichtsphilosophie
- Nützen
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- Geschiedfilosofie.
- Postmodernisme.
- Ethische aspecten.
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