The Ethos of History: Time and Responsibility (Making Sense of History, Band 34)

ISBN 10: 1785338846 ISBN 13: 9781785338847

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for historians and their work? By way of an answer, the contributors to this volume offer up an illuminating collective meditation on the idea of ethos and its relevance for historical practice. These intellectually adventurous essays demonstrate how ethos-a term evoking a society's "fundamental character" as well as an ethical appeal to knowledge and commitment-can serve as a conceptual lodestar for history today, not only as a narrative, but as a form of consciousness and an ethical-political orientation.

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Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English at Stockholm University. He is the author of Writing in Crisis: Ethics and History in Gordimer, Ndebele and Coetzee (2004) and Transnationalism in Southern African Literature (2009), has edited volume four of Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective (2006), and is co-editor (with Pieter Vermeulen) of Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets (2015).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785338846
• ISBN 13: 9781785338847
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Herausgeber: Helgesson Stefan, Svenungsson Jayne
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