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Composing Useful Pasts

Name: Composing Useful Pasts
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 04700945
Price: 38.27 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Edmund E. Jacobitti
ISBN: 9780791446768

History as Contemporary Politics

Edmund E. Jacobitti

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04700945

Publishers State University of New York Press, August 2000

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Composing Useful Pasts discusses how history is not a settled record of the dead past, but a poetic or imaginative creation stimulated by and focused on contemporary interests. Historical investigation is always and necessarily a selective reading of events. It is an interpretation that arises only because of some pressing question in the present -- a question that can only be answered in terms that address the interests, concerns, and problems of contemporary readers. This book employs a postmodern philosophy of the human sciences to show the power of historical explanation in contemporary political life.