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1 online resource (204 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index. |
| Contents |
The history debates as a crisis for liberalism -- Eliding public imagination : the example of Habermas's isolation of principles from history -- Avoiding judgment : structuralist and postructuralist approaches to history -- Reasoning through public imagination -- The politics of race and imagination : Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock -- Globalization and the clash of cultures -- Is there no such thing as principle? |
| Summary |
"In Hiding from History, Meili Steele challenges an assumption at the heart of current debates in political, literary, historical, and cultural theory: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought "hide from history": liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jurgen Habermas, Martha Nussbaum, and John Rawls and structuralism/poststructuralism as practiced by Judith Butler, Hayden White, and Michel Foucault. For Steele, public reasoning cannot be easily divorced from either the historical imagination in general or the specific legacies that shape, and often haunt, political communities."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Whitman College -- Memorial bookplates -- Class of 1932. |
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Public history.
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Public history. |
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Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steele, Meili, 1949- Hiding from history. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005 0801443857 (DLC) 2005016120 (OCoLC)60664292 |
| ISBN |
9781501717840 (electronic book) |
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1501717847 (electronic book) |
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0801443857 |
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9780801443855 |
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