Lover's quarrel with the past : romance, representation, reading / Ranjan Ghosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghosh, Ranjan.

Series:

Making sense of history ; v. 15.

Making sense of history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Historiography--Political aspects.

Historiography.

Historiography--Social aspects.

Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects.

Romanticism.

Representation (Philosophy).

History--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 162 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Summary:

Ghosh (English, U. of North Bengal) brings a fresh non-historian perspective to the study of history, exploring in his central conceit, culture's romance and frustrations with the past in relation to the present. Focusing primarily on India, this slim but rich work addresses how history and analysis connect, and how history simultaneously transcends and acts as foundation for a complex understanding of the world in a variety of contexts such as ethics, religion, and global politics. Sections include rumination on a historian's ethics, history and memory, and presence in and intangibles of history. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Foreword: Imagination and Fact : A Lover's Quarrel / Frank Ankersmit

The Quarrel Begins?

Romancing the Past : Presence and Intangibilities of History

Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation : History and Memory

Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? The Historian's Ethics and the Ethics of Historical Reading

Afterword: The Quarrel Continues? / Mark Bevir and Ranjan Ghosh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [146]-156) and index.

ISBN:

9780857454843

0857454846

9780857454850

0857454854

OCLC:

770694280