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The Work of History
Constructivism and a Politics of the Past
Routledge Approaches to History Series
Author: Pihlainen Kalle
Language: EnglishSubject for The Work of History:
Keywords
Le Roy Ladurie’s Montaillou; Alun Munslow; Ethical Political Responsibility; Parahistorical Representations; Phenomenological Yearning; Singular Existential Statements; Frank Ankersmit; Narrative Constructivism; Contemporary Society; Metaphorical Insight; Ethical Political Commitments; Modernist Literary Forms; Conventional History Writing; White’s Emphasis; Narrative Truth; Challenger Explosion; Discursive Practices; Aesthetic Closure; Interpretive Closure; Epistemological Scepticism; Oppositional History; Construction Surfaces; Blind Assassin; Archetypal Story Forms; Writer Reader Contract
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Add to cart the book of Pihlainen KallePublication date: 03-2019
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 09-2017
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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Since the appearance of Hayden White?s seminal work Metahistory in 1973, constructivist thought has been a key force within theory of history and has at times even provided inspiration for historians more generally. Despite the radical theoretical shift marked by constructivism and elaborated in detail by its proponents, confusion regarding many of its practical and ethical consequences persists, however, and its position on truth and meaning is routinely misconstrued. To remedy this situation, The Work of History seeks to mediate between constructivist theory and history practitioners? intuitions about the nature of their work, especially as these relate to the so-called fact?fiction debate and to the literary challenges involved in the production of historical accounts. In doing so, the book also offers much-needed insight into debates about our experiential relations with the past, the political use of history and the role of facts in the contestation of power.
Foreword by Hayden White
1. Narrative Truth
2. Rereading Constructivism
3. An End to Oppositional History?
4. Communication and Constraint
5. History in the World
6. Reforming Representation
7. The Confines of the Form
Kalle Pihlainen is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Humanities at Tallinn University, Estonia, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.