![]() ![]() He confronts the postmodernist challenge in boots and all fashion with never a backward step. If ever a love-it-or-hate-it book has been written, it is likely to be this one. For postmodernity is not an 'ideology' or a position we chose to subscribe to or not postmodernity is precisely our condition: it is our fate." To think that I paid good money for this book.Īnother book on which I spent good money, this time wisely, was Richard J. In 1995, for example, Keith Jenkins explicitly attempted to displace the duo with a postmodernist challenge, the execrably written On "What is History?": from Carr and Elton to Rorty and White, whose claim to fame is that resoundingly unecumenical passage: "Today we live in a condition of postmodernity We do not have a choice about this. Although no longer on the cutting edge, they simply won't lie down or be put out to pasture, despite the clamouring of numerous competitors. Over thirty years later, these aging and grey-haired tomes soldier on unrepentantly. ![]() ![]() Great equals and opposites, each helped to "make" the other. Elton's The Practice of History have a Siamese-twins quality. MLA style: "In Defence of History." The Free Library. ![]()
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