Rethinking History

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Debating history's methodology for a critical understanding.

"Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins challenges traditional historical methodology, aiming to develop a critical intelligence for the post-modern world. The author argues against an objective truth and instead explores history's own production process. This thought-provoking book is ideal for students and anyone interested in a sceptical and historicist approach to history."

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Rethinking History

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ISBN: 9780415067782
Authors: Keith Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge
Date of Publication: 1991-11-22
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Philosophy, History
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This introductory text is written for students faced with the question "what is history?' Polemical in tone, the book argues against a skills-based approach to history in favour of a methodological one. Drawing widely on developments in philosophy, literary theory, critical theory and politics, Keith Jenkins argues that history must abandon the search for objective truth about the past and come to terms with its own processes of production. Brief, provocative and well-argued, the book aims to develop in its readers an historicist, sceptical, critical intelligence that will open up a new understanding of what history is, and can be, in the post-modern world.
 

Debating history's methodology for a critical understanding.

"Rethinking History by Keith Jenkins challenges traditional historical methodology, aiming to develop a critical intelligence for the post-modern world. The author argues against an objective truth and instead explores history's own production process. This thought-provoking book is ideal for students and anyone interested in a sceptical and historicist approach to history."

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.