History and Morality
(Sprache: Englisch)
Should historians make value judgements about the past? Many historians think not, but Donald Bloxham contends that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important. History and Morality illuminates how far tacit moral judgements infuse works...
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Should historians make value judgements about the past? Many historians think not, but Donald Bloxham contends that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important. History and Morality illuminates how far tacit moral judgements infuse works of history, and how strange those histories would look if the judgements were removed.
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Should historians make value judgements about the past? Many historians think not, but Donald Bloxham contends that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important. History and Morality illuminates how far tacit moral judgements infuse works of history, and how strange those histories would look if the judgements were removed.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „History and Morality “
- Introduction
- 1: Contemplating Historical Actors in Context
- 2: Writing History: Problems of Neutrality
- 3: Justifying Judgement on Things Past
- 4: History, Identity, and the Present
- Bibliography
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Donald Bloxham
Donald Bloxham has taught at Edinburgh University since 2001. He was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2007 and given the established Richard Pares chair of history in 2011. Beyond his work on the history and philosophy of the discipline of history, he is a specialist in the study of genocide and of the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. His book The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (OUP, 2005) won the Raphael Lemkin Prize for genocide scholarship. He has also been a recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and is currently on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Donald Bloxham
- 2022, 336 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192855654
- ISBN-13: 9780192855657
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Bloxham's book is a call for nuance and self-awareness, arguing that moral judgement is not only important, but is actually inescapable. What matters is how we deploy it - and that we are conscious of doing so. Jonathan Waterlow, H/Sz/Kult
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