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History Out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History
Sande Cohen
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Description for History Out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History
Hardback. Considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. This book looks at some struggles to control public history, examining popular newspaper accounts of events - misrepresentation from the "bottom up" - in geopolitics and art. Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3, 3 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
In History Out of Joint, Sande Cohen considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. As competing factions advance contradictory principles to validate or discredit their preferred accounts of the past and the present, Cohen argues that the fundamental question of how these principles themselves should be addressed-of what truly constitutes the use or abuse of history-has been pushed aside. Taking Nietzsche's idea of a simultaneous production and "anti-production" of culture as his starting point, Cohen proposes that the real abuse lies ... Read more
In History Out of Joint, Sande Cohen considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. As competing factions advance contradictory principles to validate or discredit their preferred accounts of the past and the present, Cohen argues that the fundamental question of how these principles themselves should be addressed-of what truly constitutes the use or abuse of history-has been pushed aside. Taking Nietzsche's idea of a simultaneous production and "anti-production" of culture as his starting point, Cohen proposes that the real abuse lies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801882142
SKU
V9780801882142
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About Sande Cohen
Sande Cohen teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.
Reviews for History Out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History
Cohen has established himself as one of the harshest critics of the academy in general, and the historical discipline in particular... Worth reading.
Phillippe Carrard Clio 2006 Even the book's most contestable critical interventions produce valuable insights that might have been missed in a less ambitious book... The interest of the book consequently far exceeds the specific disciplinary frame ... Read more
Phillippe Carrard Clio 2006 Even the book's most contestable critical interventions produce valuable insights that might have been missed in a less ambitious book... The interest of the book consequently far exceeds the specific disciplinary frame ... Read more