1st Edition
The Work of History Constructivism and a Politics of the Past
By Kalle Pihlainen
Copyright 2017
144 Pages
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Routledge
166 Pages
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Routledge
166 Pages
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Routledge
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Since the appearance of Hayden White’s seminal work Metahistory in 1973, constructivist thought has been a key force within theory of history and has at times even provided inspiration for historians more generally. Despite the radical theoretical shift marked by constructivism and elaborated in detail by its proponents, confusion regarding many of its practical and ethical consequences... Read more
Foreword by Hayden White
1. Narrative Truth
2. Rereading Constructivism
3. An End to Oppositional History?
4. Communication and Constraint
5. History in the World
6. Reforming Representation
7. The Confines of the Form
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.
