A01=Edith Wyschogrod
Author_Edith Wyschogrod
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226920443
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 1998
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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What are the ethical responsibilities of the historian in an age of mass murder and hyper-reality? Can one be postmodern and still write history? For whom should history be written? The author explores these questions through the figure of the "heterological historian". Realizing the philosophical impossibilities of ever recovering "what really happened", this historian nevertheless acknowledges a moral imperative to speak for those who have been rendered voiceless. The book also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as photographs, film and the Internet, which bring with them new constraints on the writing of history and which mandate a different vision of community. Drawing on the works of continental philosophers, historiographers, cognitive scientists and filmmakers, the book creates a framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian.
