Thoughts out of Season (Complete)
Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465515216
The Uses and Abuses of History
Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 184765200X
Book Description
The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to history for guidance? No; their mistake was to exaggerate one of its lessons while suppressing others of equal importance. History is often hijacked through suppression, manipulation, and, sometimes, even outright deception. MacMillan's book is packed full of examples of the abuses of history. In response, she urges us to treat the past with care and respect.
The Use and Abuse of History
Author : Marc Ferro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134449658
Book Description
Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the use and abuse of history. Engaging and challenging, this book confronts the reader with the many 'histories' that exist and have existed around the world, from the Zulu kingdoms to Communist China. This title has now been extensively revised by Marc Ferro, a well respected historian, and presents the different narratives that constitute the histories of countries as diverse as India, Iran, Trinidad and the United States makes for fascinating reading in their own right. What makes this book so valuable, though, is what these narratives tell us about the societies which create them – how much is history distorted in order to condition the minds of those who are taught it? Use and Abuse of History appeals to anyone with a general interested in history.
The Stakes of History
Author : David N. Myers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300231407
Book Description
A leading scholar of Jewish history’s bracing and challenging case for the role of the historian today Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers’s illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical research and writing. His inquiry identifies a number of key themes around which modern Jewish historians have wrapped their labors: liberation, consolation, and witnessing. Through these portraits, Myers revisits the chasm between history and memory, revealing the middle space occupied by modern Jewish historians as they work between the poles of empathic storytelling and the critical sifting of sources. History, properly applied, can both destroy ideologically rooted myths that breed group hatred and create new memories that are sustaining of life. Alive in these investigations is Myers’s belief that the historian today can and should attend to questions of political and moral urgency. Historical knowledge is not a luxury to society but an essential requirement for informed civic engagement, as well as a vital tool in policy making, conflict resolution, and restorative justice.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Book Description
Thus Spake Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be Friedrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece. It includes the German philosopher’s famous discussion of the phrase ‘God is dead’ as well as his concept of the Superman. Nietzsche delineates his Will to Power theory and devotes pages to critiquing Christian thinking, in particular Christianity’s definition of good and evil.
The Use and Abuse of Australian History
Author : Graeme Davison
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781864487206
Book Description
This collection of engaging and vigorous essays examine what makes the 'history business' tick. Davison demonstrates that Australia's history can be relevant to the issues we confront everyday at the governmental level, at work, and in our communities.
History by Hollywood
Author : Robert Brent Toplin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252065361
Book Description
Presenting Hollywood as one of our most influential interpreters of history, Toplin offers a close examination of Mississippi Burning, JFK, Sergeant York, Missing, Bonnie and Clyde, Patton, All the President's Men, and Norma Rae.--Distributed by Syndetics Solutions, LLC.
Architecture Re-assembled
Author : Trevor Garnham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134053061
Book Description
Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day. It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in finding well-founded principles for architectural design. This is not simply another history of architecture, nor a ‘history of histories’. Setting buildings in their contemporaneous ideas about history, it spans from Fischer von Erlach to Venturi and Rossi, and beyond to architects working in the fallout from both the Modern Movement – Aalto, Louis Kahn, Aldo van Eyck – and Post-modernism – such as Rafael Moneo and Peter Zumthor. It shows how Soane, Schinkel and Stirling, amongst others, made a meaningful use of history and contrasts this with how a misreading of Hegel has led to an abuse of history and an uncritical flight to the future. This is not an armchair history but a lively discussion of our place between past and future that promotes thinking for making.
History Out of Joint
Author : Sande Cohen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801882142
Book Description
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The Use and Abuse of Literature
Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307277127
Book Description
In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber aims to reclaim “literature” from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a radical way of thinking. But what is literature anyway, how has it been understood over time, and what is its relevance for us today? Who gets to decide what the word means? Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato? Does it have any use at all, other than serving as bourgeois or aristocratic accoutrements attesting to one’s worldly sophistication and refinement of spirit? What are the boundaries that separate it from its “commercial” instance and from other more mundane kinds of writing? Is it, as most of us assume, good to read, much less study—and what would that mean?
