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Historical Knowledge, Historical Error
Allan Megill
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Description for Historical Knowledge, Historical Error
Paperback. Historians have chronicled language, madness, gender, and sexuality and have experimented with fresh forms of presentation. This work suggests that there is confusion among historians about what counts as a justified account of the past. It dispels some of the confusion, and also discusses issues of narrative, objectivity, and memory. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
In the past thirty years, historians have broadened the scope of their discipline to include many previously neglected topics and perspectives. They have chronicled language, madness, gender, and sexuality and have experimented with new forms of presentation. They have turned to the histories of non-Western peoples and to the troubled relations between "the West" and the rest. Allan Megill welcomes these developments, but he also suggests that there is now confusion among historians about what counts as a justified account of the past. In "Historical Knowledge, Historical Error", Megill dispels some of the confusion. Here, he discusses issues of narrative, ... Read more
In the past thirty years, historians have broadened the scope of their discipline to include many previously neglected topics and perspectives. They have chronicled language, madness, gender, and sexuality and have experimented with new forms of presentation. They have turned to the histories of non-Western peoples and to the troubled relations between "the West" and the rest. Allan Megill welcomes these developments, but he also suggests that there is now confusion among historians about what counts as a justified account of the past. In "Historical Knowledge, Historical Error", Megill dispels some of the confusion. Here, he discusses issues of narrative, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226518305
SKU
V9780226518305
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About Allan Megill
Allan Megill is professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida and Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market), and coeditor of Rethinking Objectivity.
Reviews for Historical Knowledge, Historical Error
"Historical Knowledge, Historical Error represents a major and much-needed intervention in the debates that have engaged historians and philosophers of history in the last two or three decades.... Megill's argument deserves attention from everybody who wonders about where the discipline of history might be headed once the dust has settled on the tired debates over objectivity versus relativist skepticism." - ... Read more