The ethos of history : time and responsibility / edited by Stefan Helgesson and Jayne Svenungsson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helgesson, Stefan, editor.

Svenungsson, Jayne, editor.

Series:

Making sense of history ; v. 34.

Making sense of history ; volume 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects.

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Ethics.

Historians--Professional ethics.

Physical Description:

vi, 220 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2018]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the ethos of history / Stefan Helgesson and Jayne Svenungsson

Towards a new ethos of history / Aleida Assmann

The vampire, the undead and the anxieties of historical consciousness / Claudia Lind�en and Hans Ruin

History, justice and the time of the imprescriptible / Victoria Fareld

Narrating pasts for peace? : a critical analysis of some recent initiatives of historical reconciliation through 'historical dialogue' and 'shared history' / Berber Bevernage

Psychoanalysis and the indeterminacy of history / Joan W. Scott

Does time have a gender? : queer temporality, anachronism, and the desire for the past / Kristina Fjelkestam

'The one who should die is the one who shall live' : prophetic temporalities in contemporary colonial Brazil / Patricia Lorenzoni

Radical time in post/colonial narratives / Stefan Helgesson

Engaged history / Marcia S�a Cavalcante Schuback

Speakers for the dead : digital memory and the construction of identity / Alana M. Vincent

History begins in the future : on historical sensibility in the age of technology / Zolt�an Boldizs�ar Simon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ethos of history

ISBN:

9781785338847

1785338846

OCLC:

1012510988