History and Memory (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

by JacquesLegoff (Author)

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1996
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-- Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania

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-- Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania

$43.91

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 27 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 023107591X
ISBN 13: 9780231075916
Book Overview: In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

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Historiography has its fashions, and this is a clear and persuasive portrayal of a present trend away from the fraternization of history with philosophy, theology, literature and the history of the plastic arts, toward a flirtation with politics and the social sciences...A fine study. The Historian

Author Bio

Jaques Le Goff is the Director of Studies and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Among his other books are Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages andConstructing the Past: Essays in Historical Methodology.