Why Bother with History? : Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations, Paperback / softback Book

Why Bother with History? : Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Motivations Paperback / softback

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. Why Bother With History? argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study.

Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire. Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.

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