Hiding from History : : Politics and Public Imagination /

Hiding from History : : Politics and Public Imagination / / Meili Steele.

In Hiding from History, Meili Steele challenges an assumption at the heart of current debates in political, literary, historical, and cultural theory: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought "hide from history":...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Steele, Meili,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The History Debates as a Crisis for Liberalism
  • 1. Eliding Public Imagination: Habermas's Isolation of Principles from History
  • 2. Avoiding Judgment: Structuralist and Poststructuralist Approaches to History
  • 3. Reasoning through Public Imagination
  • 4. The Politics of Race and Imagination: Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock
  • 5. Globalization and the Clash of Cultures
  • Conclusion. Is There No Such Thing as Principle?
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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