History Is a Contemporary Literature: Manifesto for the Social Sciences

Synopsis

Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world. Jablonka argues that the act and art of writing, far from being an afterthought in the social sciences, should play a vital role in the production of knowledge in all stages of the researcher’s work and embody or even constitute the understanding obtained. History (along with sociology and anthropology) can, he contends, achieve both greater rigor and wider audiences by creating a literary experience through a broad spectrum of narrative modes.Challenging scholars to adopt investigative, testimonial, and other experimental writing techniques as a way of creating and sharing knowledge, Jablonka envisions a social science literature that will inspire readers to become actively engaged in understanding their own pasts and to relate their histories to the present day. Lamenting the specialization that has isolated the academy from the rest of society, History Is a Contemporary Literature aims to bring imagination and audacity into the practice of scholarship, drawing on the techniques of literature to strengthen the methods of the social sciences.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

292 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781501710766

Related ISBNs:

9781501710773, 9781501709876

Publisher:

Cornell University Press

Date of Addition:

06/15/21

Copyrighted By:

see Acquisitions\Description

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Sociology

Reading Age:

18 and up

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Translator:

Nathan J. Bracher