Rejoinder to a Postmodernist

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ID4496258
AuthorsPeerez Zagorin (University of Virginia, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume39
Issue2
Pages201-209
Publication date2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/0018-2656.00123
OpenAlexW2055753332
LanguageEN
Citations received8

This article, a defense of realism and representationalism in history against the postmodernist philosophy of language, is a critical rejoinder to Keith Jenkins's reply to my earlier essay in this journal in 1999 on postmodernism and historiography. Beginning with some remarks on the relationship between philosophy and historiography, this article goes on to note some of the weaknesses in postmodernist Jenkins's discussion of realism, representationalism, Richard Rorty, and Jacques Derrida's well-known dictum that there is nothing outside the text. It also considers Jenkins's talk about emancipation and the end of history and shows why it cannot be taken seriously. The article's conclusion is that postmodernism has nothing to contribute to the understanding of history as a form of thought or body of knowledge

Art · Continental philosophy · Direct and indirect realism · Emancipation · Epistemology · Historiography · Literature · Nothing · Politics · Postmodernism · Realism · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

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