Introduction: Historians and ‘the current situation’ Kalle Pihlainen
1. The republic of historians: historians as nation-builders in Estonia (late 1980s–early 1990s) Marek Tamm
2. The ‘age of commemoration’ as a narrative construct: a critique of the discourse on the contemporary crisis of memory in France Kenan Van De Mieroop
3. Thinking the past politically: Palestine, power and pedagogy Claire Norton and Mark Donnelly
4. The ideal of objectivity and the public role of the historian: some lessons from the Historikerstreit and the History Wars Anton Froeyman
5. Calliope’s ascent: defragmenting philosophy of history by rhetoric Rik Peters
6. We are history: the outlines of a quasi-substantive philosophy of history Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
7. History, power and visual communication artefacts Katherine Hepworth
Biography
Kalle Pihlainen is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Humanities at Tallinn University, Estonia, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research focuses on the theory and philosophy of history as well as on literary and historical culture.
