Why Bother With History?: Ancient, Modern And Postmodern Motivations

Using examples from antiquity to the present, this timely and relevant volume 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. 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.

• • Author: Beverley C. Southgate
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Dec 01, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 200 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138836834
• • ISBN-13: 9781138836839