A lover's quarrel with the past : romance, representation, reading /

Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today.Qualifying the "non-historian" as an "able" interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current ep...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghosh, Ranjan
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Series:Making sense of history ; v. 15
Subjects:
History > Philosophy.
Historiography > Political aspects.
Historiography > Social aspects.
Historiography > Moral and ethical aspects.
Romanticism.
Representation (Philosophy)
History > Study and teaching.
Table of 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.

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