Stefan (Hrsg.) Helgesson

The Ethos of History

Time and Responsibility

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Svenungsson, Jayne (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78533-885-4
EAN: 9781785338854
Produktnummer: 25039493
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 230 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'677 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 34

Über den Autor

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).