Dr. Ernst A. Breisach's On the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath Published
Dr.
Ernst A. Breisach's On the Future of History provides
the first comprehensive overview of postmodernism and its complex
relationship to history and historiography. Placing postmodern
theories in their intellectual and historical contexts, he shows
how they are part of broad developments in Western culture. Breisach
sees postmodernism as neither just a fad nor a universal remedy.
In clear and concise language, he presents and critically evaluates
the major views on history held by influential postmodernists,
such as Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and the new narrativists. Along
the way, he introduces to the reader major debates among historians
over postmodern theories of evidence, objectivity, meaning and
order, truth, and the usefulness of history. He also discusses
new types of history that have emerged as a consequence of postmodernism,
including cultural history, microhistory, and new historicism.
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