The Ethos of History : : Time and Responsibility / / ed. by Stefan Helgesson, Jayne Svenungsson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Assmann, Aleida,; Bevernage, Berber,; Fareld, Victoria,; Fjelkestam, Kristina,; Helgesson, Stefan,; Lindén, Claudia,; Lorenzoni, Patricia,; Ruin, Hans,; Schuback, Marcia Sá Cavalcante,; Scott, Joan W.,; Simon, Zoltán Boldizsár,; Svenungsson, Jayne,; Vincent, Alana M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Helgesson, Stefan,; Svenungsson, Jayne,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Making Sense of History ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; INTRODUCTION Situating the Ethos of History --; CHAPTER 1 Towards a New Ethos of History? --; CHAPTER 2 The Vampire, the Undead and the Anxieties of Historical Consciousness --; CHAPTER 3 History, Justice and the Time of the Imprescriptible --; CHAPTER 4 Narrating Pasts for Peace? A Critical Analysis of Some Recent Initiatives of Historical Reconciliation through ‘Historical Dialogue’ and ‘Shared History’ --; CHAPTER 5 Psychoanalysis and the Indeterminacy of History --; CHAPTER 6 Does Time Have a Gender? Queer Temporality, Anachronism and the Desire for the Past --; CHAPTER 7 ‘The One Who Should Die Is the One Who Shall Live’ Prophetic Temporalities in Contemporary Colonial Brazil --; CHAPTER 8 Radical Time in (Post)Colonial Narratives --; CHAPTER 9 Engaged History --; CHAPTER 10 Speakers for the Dead: Digital Memory and the Construction of Identity --; CHAPTER 11 History Begins in the Future: On Historical Sensibility in the Age of Technology --; Afterword --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785338854; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785338854?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Stefan Helgesson, Jayne Svenungsson.

At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for historians and their work? By way of an answer, the contributors to this volume offer up an illuminating collective meditation on the idea of ethos and its relevance for historical practice. These intellectually adventurous essays demonstrate how ethos—a term evoking a society’s “fundamental character” as well as an ethical appeal to knowledge and commitment—can serve as a conceptual lodestar for history today, not only as a narrative, but as a form of consciousness and an ethical-political orientation.