Composing Useful Pasts
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Composing Useful Pasts discusses how history is not a settled record of the dead past, but a poetic or imaginative creation stimulated by and focused on contemporary interests. Historical investigation is always and necessarily a selective reading of events. It is an interpretation that arises only because of some pressing question in the present—a question that can only be answered in terms that address the interests, concerns, and problems of contemporary readers. This book employs a postmodern philosophy of the human sciences to show the power of historical explanation in contemporary political life. It explores issues as diverse as the interpretation of the French Revolution, the influence of Greek heritage on Western culture, and the ongoing debate about America's founding principles.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Role of the Past in Contemporary Political Life/ Edmund E. Jacobitti 1. Imaginative Etymology (As a Type of Evidence and a Trope of Argument)/ John S. Nelson 2. Poetic History: Historical Experience, Nietzschean Genealogy, and Susan Daitch's L.C./ David W. Price 3. "Gigantic Shadows of Futurity": History and Politics in Shelley's Defence of Poetry/ Jacqueline LeBlanc 4. Painting out the Past/ Stephen Brown 5. "The Power of Kulturgeschichte": 1000 Years in the House that Jacob Built: The Italian Renaissance/ Carole Collier Frick Contributors Index

About the Author :
Edmund E. Jacobitti is Professor Emeritus of History at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He is the author of Revolutionary Humanism and Historicism in Modern Italy.

Review :
"The strength of this book lies in the fact that it covers a broad range of historical periods, thinkers, poets, mediums of aesthetic expression, and points of view. Common themes running through it are the crisis of modernity and the importance of Nietzsche and Heidegger in bridging historical and poetic sensibilities." - Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Eastern Michigan University "Jacobitti provides an extended argument for understanding the important role of imagination in historical consciousness. This book will challenge, interest, and educate." - Robert Hariman, author of Political Style: The Artistry of Power


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791446751
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: History as Contemporary Politics
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0791446751
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 381 gr


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