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Description for Mythistory
Hardcover. Joseph Mali argues that the task of modern historiography is to illuminate, not eliminate, historical myths by showing how they have passed into and shaped historical reality. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 626.
Since the time of Herodotus, historians have debated the role that myth should play in history. Most have sided with Thucydides, who denounced myth as "unscientific". Joseph Mali, on the other hand, argues that the task of modern historiography is to illuminate, not eliminate, historical myths by showing how they have passed into and shaped historical reality. Mali uses the concept of "mythistory" to steer a course between and beyond older views that confined history to "what really happened" and new, postmodern theories that reduce it to what people have merely imagined to have happened. In a tour de force ... Read more
Since the time of Herodotus, historians have debated the role that myth should play in history. Most have sided with Thucydides, who denounced myth as "unscientific". Joseph Mali, on the other hand, argues that the task of modern historiography is to illuminate, not eliminate, historical myths by showing how they have passed into and shaped historical reality. Mali uses the concept of "mythistory" to steer a course between and beyond older views that confined history to "what really happened" and new, postmodern theories that reduce it to what people have merely imagined to have happened. In a tour de force ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226502625
SKU
V9780226502625
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