At the Limits of History: Essays on Theory and Practice

by Jenkins; Keith

• ISBN13: 9780415472357
• ISBN10: 0415472350
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Keith Jenkins' work on historical theory is renowned; this collection presents the essential elements of his work over the last fifteen years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Foreword	p. 1
Introduction: History limited	p. 4
Marxism and historical knowledge: Tony Bennett and the discursive turn	p. 22
Living in time but outside history, living in morality but outside ethics: Postmodernism and Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth	p. 36
Why bother with history?	p. 54
History, the referent and narrative: Reflections on postmodernism now	p. 64
A postmodern reply to Perez Zagorin	p. 89
Rejoinder to a postmodernist	p. 110
Response to a postmodernist: Or, a historian's critique of postmodernist critiques of history	p. 119
Against the historical 'middle ground': A reply to Michael Coleman	p. 133
On disobedient histories	p. 150
Modernist disavowals and postmodern reminders of the condition of history today: On Jean-François Lyotard	p. 169
Ethical responsibility and the historian: On the possible end of history 'of a certain kind'	p. 188
'Once upon a time': On history	p. 208
Postmodernity, the end of history, and Frank Ankersmit	p. 230
The end of the affair: On the irretrievable breakdown of history and ethics	p. 245
'Nobody does it better': Radical history and Hayden White	p. 255
Sande Cohen: On the verge of newness	p. 270
Cohen contra Ankersmit	p. 295
Afterword	p. 315
Name index	p. 322
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