Author: | Alun Munslow | ISBN: | 9781137041463 |
Publisher: | Macmillan Education UK | Publication: | July 30, 2010 |
Imprint: | Red Globe Press | Language: | English |
Author: | Alun Munslow |
ISBN: | 9781137041463 |
Publisher: | Macmillan Education UK |
Publication: | July 30, 2010 |
Imprint: | Red Globe Press |
Language: | English |
In this radical reassessment, Alun Munslow challenges conventional notions of history and offers a new vision of historical thinking and practice. Deploying a range of concepts such as scepticism, aesthetics, ethics, standpoint, irony, authorship and a new understanding of truth, The Future of History examines history as a form of knowledge in itself, arguing that in the future the multiple forms of its expression will be as significant as its content. This thought-provoking, challenging and unique book offers a way forward for history after postmodernism and is essential reading for anyone asking the question 'what is history?'.
In this radical reassessment, Alun Munslow challenges conventional notions of history and offers a new vision of historical thinking and practice. Deploying a range of concepts such as scepticism, aesthetics, ethics, standpoint, irony, authorship and a new understanding of truth, The Future of History examines history as a form of knowledge in itself, arguing that in the future the multiple forms of its expression will be as significant as its content. This thought-provoking, challenging and unique book offers a way forward for history after postmodernism and is essential reading for anyone asking the question 'what is history?'.