A possible (common-sense) defence of (my) history
A response to Keith Jenkins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12591663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Lyon Macfie |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-355 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rethinking History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-2529 • E-ISSN: 1470-1154 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13642520903091092 |
| OpenAlex | W2118091875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In this article, by way of a critique of the arguments advanced by Keith Jenkins in his article, ‘“Nobody does it better”: Radical history and Hayden White’, I attempt a (common-sense) defence of conventional (closed, empirical/epistemologically striving) history, as traditionally practised. Where Jenkins suggests a number of necessary conditions for the production of a radical (non-)history, I suggest a number of necessary conditions for the possibility of a conventional history; and where Jenkins lists a number of reasons why the conditions of possibility of a conventional history cannot ever be met, I list a number of reasons why they can be met. My conclusion is that history, seen mainly as a subject involved with the recovery of meaning from dead text, is possible; although the possibility of a recovery of meaning from dead text will inevitably be limited by the constraints imposed by the use of language
Art · Common sense · Epistemology · Literature · Meaning (existential · nobody · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |