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Why Bother with History?: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations

Why Bother with History?: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations

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Historiography

ISBN10: 1138836834
ISBN13: 9781138836839
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2014
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Using examples from antiquity to the present, this timely and relevant volume argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint. Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.

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