Martin Davies, "How History Works: The Reconstitution of a Human Science "
English | ISBN: 1138932124 | 2015 | 194 pages | EPUB | 612 KB
How History Works assesses the social function of academic knowledge in the humanities, exemplified by history, and offers a critique of the validity of historical knowledge. The book focusses on history's academic, disciplinary ethos to offer a reconception of the discipline of history, arguing that it is an existential liability: if critical analysis reveals the sense that history offers to the world to be illusory, what stops historical scholarship from becoming a disguise for pessimism or nihilism?