On 'What Is History' From Carr And Elton To Rorty And White

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1、On‘WhatisHistory?’InthisbookKeithJenkinsarguesthatoldermodernistdiscussionsaboutthenatureofhistory-includingthosebyCarrandElton-arenowpartialanddatedguidestocontemporarydebates.Headvocatesthattheybe‘replaced’bytwoothertheorists,RichardRortyandHaydenWhite.Inhisintroductionand

2、firstchapter,KeithJenkinsplacesCarr,Elton,RortyandWhitewithincurrentdiscussionsconcerningthediscourseofhistory.This‘contextualisation’isthenfollowedbyfourchapters:inthefirsttwoCarrandEltonaresubjectedtoradicalcritique;inthelatterJenkinsintroducesaspectsoftheworksofRortyandWh

3、ite,postmodern-typethinkerswhoinhisopinionrepresentapossiblewayforwardfortoday’shistoriographicalconcerns.KeithJenkins’explorationofHaydenWhite’sworkisparticularlysignificant.ForalthoughWhitehaslongbeenrecognisedasoneofthemostoriginalhistorytheoristscurrentlywriting,hisworki

4、sactuallylittlereadandlittleunderstoodinmanyorthodoxhistoricalarenas,orbymosthistorystudents.JenkinsarguesthattheneglectofWhiteandthegeneralsuspicionof‘theory’amongmanyhistoriansareissueswhichneedtobeurgentlyaddressed.On‘WhatisHistory?’shouldenablestudentstogaininsightsintoa

5、ndunderstandingsofmanycurrentdebateswithregardtothe‘historyquestion’,insightsandunderstandingsthatnecessarilymoveusbeyondthoseoldintroductoryfavourites,CarrandElton,intonewandvitalareasofconsideration.AlsoavailablefromRoutledge:Re-thinkingHistorybyKeithJenkins‘Amodelofconcis

6、eargument[that]posesfundamentalquestionsconcerningthenatureofhistoriographyinapost-modernistworld’A.White,UniversityofEastLondon‘raisesmanyinterestingandimportantquestions’TeachingHistoryOn‘WhatisHistory?’FromCarrandEltontoRortyandWhiteKeithJenkinsLondonandNewYorkFirstpublis

7、hed1995byRoutledge11NewFetterLane,LondonEC4P4EEThiseditionpublishedintheTaylor&Francise-Library,2005.“TopurchaseyourowncopyofthisoranyofTaylor&FrancisorRoutledge’scollectionofthousandsofeBookspleasegotowww.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.”SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanadabyRou

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