9780684844459 - The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past von Windschuttle, Keith (12 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Gut. 298 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat bleached and rubbed jacket, some staining on binding and bottom edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Etwas verblichener und beriebener Umschlag, Einband und Fußschnitt etwas angeschmutzt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - For 2,500 years, since the time of Herodotus and Thucydides, historians have sought to record the truth about the past. Today, however, the discipline is suffering a potentially lethal attack from the rise to prominence of an array of French-inspired literary and social theories, each of which denies that truth and knowledge about the past are possible. These theories claim the central point on which history was founded no longer holds: there is no fundamental distinction between history and myth or between history and fiction. Historians in classrooms from Berkeley to Paris have embraced these views, and an increasing number of literary critics and social theorists now feel free to define their own work as history and to call themselves historians. The result is revolutionary: historians have not only changed how history is taught, they are also increasingly obscuring the very facts on which the truth must be built. In The Killing of History, Keith Windschuttle offers both a devastating expose of the absurdity of these developments and a defense of the integrity of Western intellectual traditions which are now so widely attacked. Windschuttle examines exactly what is being taught about Columbus discovery of the New World; the history of asylums and prisons in Europe; the fall of Communism in 1989; and the Battle of Quebec in 1759. He offers a much needed defense of traditional history as a properly scientific endeavor and argues that the great works of history should still be regarded as among the finest forms of Western literature. - Keith Windschuttle has been a lecturer in history, social policy, sociology, and media studies at a number of Australian academic institutions including the University of New South Wales, the University of Wollongong, the New South Wales Institute of Technology, and Macleay College, Sydney. He is author of five other books on issues in Australian society. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two children. ISBN 9780684844459 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 518 Original half cloth with dust jacket.