![]() 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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