History and the Present

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  • History and the Present Book Detail

  • Author : Partha Chatterjee
  • Release Date : 2006
  • Publisher : Anthem Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 242
  • ISBN 13 : 1843312247
  • File Size : 31,31 MB

History and the Present by Partha Chatterjee PDF Summary

Book Description: The essays in this volume bring together historians and anthropologists to reflect on the place of history within present-day conditions. The central focus here is on aspects of the popular, on the ways in which the popular relates to the scientific, the professional, the aesthetic, the religious, the legal and the political. These essays represent a critique of the disciplinary practices of history. They examine the historian's practices and assumptions, being mainly concerned with finding a set of practices of history-writing that are both truthful and ethical. They are united by the desire to find a way out of the self-constructed cage of scientific history that has made historians wary of the popular. In his introduction, Partha Chatterjee spells out some of the requirements for this new analysis of the popular. He stresses the fact that in contemporary industrializing societies the popular should not be taken to be a homogeneous mass. On the contrary, he states, an awareness of the variety and innovativeness of the contemporary popular could rejuvenate academic historiography.

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