Mythical Past, Elusive Future: History and Society in an Anxious AgeAn examination of the controversies that surround education, tradition and history in an international context. The author examines the sources of the controversy that have arisen around the question of history in Germany, Japan, Britain and the USA. He argues that the conventional distinctions between left and right, or conservative, liberal and socialist have little relevance to the discussion, suggesting that even bitter intellectual foes such as conservatives and the cultural left share common assumptions regarding the past and the nature of history. |
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Page 79
... historiography fell into disrepute . Indeed until the recent re - emergence of the demand for History , the history profession has explicitly eschewed nationalist history . The disgrace of History did not lead to the revival of ...
... historiography fell into disrepute . Indeed until the recent re - emergence of the demand for History , the history profession has explicitly eschewed nationalist history . The disgrace of History did not lead to the revival of ...
Page 81
... historiography was part of the consensus among professional historians . By the late 1960s and early 1970s the view that the ' new history had triumphed over the old was almost an article of faith in the specialist literature ...
... historiography was part of the consensus among professional historians . By the late 1960s and early 1970s the view that the ' new history had triumphed over the old was almost an article of faith in the specialist literature ...
Page 82
... historiography was only identified as a problem when it began to appear aggressive to others . Thus what was widely perceived as the decline of nationalist historiography was in fact merely the demise of one of its forms . Waiting for a ...
... historiography was only identified as a problem when it began to appear aggressive to others . Thus what was widely perceived as the decline of nationalist historiography was in fact merely the demise of one of its forms . Waiting for a ...
Contents
History in demand | 17 |
History and society | 59 |
The moral impasse | 88 |
Copyright | |
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Mythical Pasts, Elusive Futures: History and Society in an Anxious Age Frank Furedi No preview available - 1991 |
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absolute values accepted American argued argument Aron attempt become Bell Bloom Britain British capitalism capitalist Cited claims Cold War communities compromise concept concern consciousness consensus conservatism conservative conservative reaction contemporary crisis critical culture Daniel Bell decade decline defence discredited discussion emphasis end of ideology Enlightenment establishment Europe experience faith fascism French French Revolution Fukuyama future German historians Hayek historical thinking historicism historicist Historikerstreit historiography history debate ideas imperialism individual intellectual intelligentsia Japan Japanese left-wing legitimacy liberal Mannheim Marx Marxist masses means modern moral multicultural national identity nationalist history Nazi Nazism nineteenth century particular particularist past patriotism perspective political postwar present problem progress question radical reason relativism religion response revival of History Revolution right-wing role Salisbury Review Second World Second World War social Social Darwinism society Soviet Union suggests theme theory thinkers Third World totalitarianism tradition West writes