The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

  
       
         
    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   DISCUSSIONS - WHY HISTORY? ETHICS AND POSTMODERNITY. BY KEITH JENKINS. LONDON AND NEW YORK: ROUTLEDGE, 1999, XI + 232 P.

Authors:  . 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   Why history? A question that preoccupies many historians and not only, and which has become ever more stringent because of the challenges launched by the adepts of postmodernism. In the book subject of our book review, Keith Jenkins, professor at the Chichester University, tries to provide arguments supporting a radical answer to the title question: history and the ethics it inspires no longer have a reason to exist in actual circumstances because―according to Jenkins―postmodernism provides us with tools allowing us to build imaginaries that are by far less coercive than those made up by history and the ethics relying on it.  
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page