Traverso Singular Pasts

The "I" in Historiography
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55531-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Singular Pasts offers a critical account of the emergence of authorial subjectivity in historical writing, scrutinizing both its achievements and its shortcomings. Enzo Traverso considers a group of contemporary historians who reveal their emotional ties to their subjects and give their writing a literary flavor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Traverso, Enzo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schoene, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Writing in Third Person
2. The Pitfalls of Objectivity
3. Ego-History
4. Short Inventory of “I” Narratives
5. Discourse on Method
6. Models: History Between Film and Literature
7. History and Fiction
8. Presentism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Enzo Traverso is Susan and Barton Winokur Professor of the Humanities at Cornell University. His recent books include Revolution: An Intellectual History (2021), Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (Columbia, 2017), and Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914–1945 (2016).

Adam Schoene is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.