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1、WhyHistory?‘Ithinkthisisaveryimportantbookbecauseofitsradicalaim…thedisestablishmentofthewholeconceptualisation…ofthepast-as-history.Asanintellectualundertakingitisquitebreathtaking….Itislikelytobeoneofthemostsignificantcommentariesonthenatureofhistorypubli
2、shedthisdecade.’AlunMunslow‘KeithJenkinsisdeterminedtodraghistoricalstudies(ortheirsuccessors)intothetwenty-firstcentury…[thisbook]constitutesanothersplendidJenkinstirade…whatparticularlyappealsisthesenseofengagementthatcomesthroughthecommitmenttoanintellec
3、tualpositionwhichhasenormouspracticalpossibilities.’BeverleySouthgateWhyHistory?isanintroductiontotheissueofhistoryandethics.Designedtoprovokediscussion,thebookaskswhetheraknowledgeandunderstandingofthepastisagoodthingtohave,andifso,why?Inthecontextofpostmo
4、derntimes,WhyHistory?suggeststhatthegoalof‘learninglessonsfromthepast’isactuallylearninglessonsfromstorieswrittenbyhistoriansandothers.Ifthepastashistoryhasnofoundation,cananythingethicalbelearnedfromhistory?WhyHistory?presentsliberatingchallengestohistorya
5、ndethics,proposingthatwehavereachedanemancipatorymomentthatiswellbeyond‘theendofhistory’.KeithJenkinsisReaderinHistoryatUniversityCollegeChichesterandauthorofRethinkingHistory(1991),On‘WhatisHistory?’FromCarrandEltontoRortyandWhite(1995)andThePostmodernHist
6、oryReader(1997).WhyHistory?EthicsandpostmodernityKeithJenkinsLondonandNewYorkFirstpublished1999byRoutledge11NewFetterLane,LondonEC4P4EESimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanadabyRoutledge29West35thStreet,NewYork,NY10001RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&Francis
7、GroupThiseditionpublishedintheTaylor&Francise-Library,2005.“TopurchaseyourowncopyofthisoranyofTaylor&FrancisorRoutledge'scollectionofthousandsofeBookspleasegotowww.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.”©1999KeithJenkinsAllrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorre
8、producedorutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingf
