Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism, And History

Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism, And History

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Book Description
This important and stimulating volume seeks to defend the value of historical understanding in the face of social-scientific and especially postmodernist criticisms of historical method and the usefulness of history for understanding the present. The book is built around a series of brilliantly original and incisive discussions of key issues in early modern history-each of which bears on the underlying purposes of historical reflection. Clark argues that modernism and postmodernism can both be explained historically; that we cannot emancipate ourselves from the past; that historical identities are deeply rooted; and that the interplay of ideas in the public arena frequently disguises these truths, but does not abolish them.

About the Author
Jonathan Clark is the Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. He was formerly a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of a number of highly regarded books on early modern England.

Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism, And History,J. C. D. Clark,Stanford University Press,0804751498,Historiography,History,History - General History,History: World,Modern - General,Philosophy,Postmodernism

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