The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our PastA huge success in hardcover, The Killing of History argues that history today is in the clutches of literary and social theorists who have little respect for or training in the discipline. He believes that they deny the existence of truth and substitute radically chic theorizing for real knowledge about the past. The result is revolutionary and unprecedented: contemporary historians are increasingly obscuring the facts on which truth about the past is built. In The Killing of History, Windschuttle offers a devastating expose of these developments. This fascinating narrative leads us into a series of case histories that demonstrate how radical theory has attempted to replace the learning of traditional history with its own political agenda. |
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... interpretation derive from semiotics and structuralist theory . Todorov was neither the only one nor the first working in this field to make claims about the power of signs . His claims about the Spanish experience in Mexico are , as ...
... interpretation derive from semiotics and structuralist theory . Todorov was neither the only one nor the first working in this field to make claims about the power of signs . His claims about the Spanish experience in Mexico are , as ...
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... interpretation , of reading off from the past whatever our present values , systems and preoccupations dictate . In other words , the past is a text or series of texts , which we interpret , the same as we would a work of literature ...
... interpretation , of reading off from the past whatever our present values , systems and preoccupations dictate . In other words , the past is a text or series of texts , which we interpret , the same as we would a work of literature ...
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... interpretations ) . This meant that many historians accepted that his- tory had a dual nature as , on the one ... interpretation . It began as the field of interpreting religious texts such as the Bible but was later extended to ...
... interpretations ) . This meant that many historians accepted that his- tory had a dual nature as , on the one ... interpretation . It began as the field of interpreting religious texts such as the Bible but was later extended to ...
Contents
PARIS LABELS AND DESIGNER CONCEPTS The Ascension of Cultural Studies and the Deluge of Social Theory | 1 |
THE OMNIPOTENCE OF SIGNS Semiotics and the Conquest of America | 39 |
BAD LANGUAGE AND THEATRICAL GESTURES Structuralism and Ethnohistory in the Pacific | 71 |
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