{"product_id":"hiding-from-history-9780801443855","title":"Hiding from History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHiding from History,\u003c\/i\u003e Meili Steele challenges an assumption at the heart of current debates in political, literary, historical, and cultural theory: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hiding from History is an excellent book on a very important issue. It concerns the nature of practical reason, how we deliberate about good and bad, right and wrong. Of course, we deliberate as individuals too, but the issue here is how we deliberate in common. Meili Steele addresses the nature of public reason, highlighting the way in which literature can contribute to rational debate, sometimes in ways that philosophical argument cannot match.\" -- Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University\u003cbr\u003e\"Meili Steele has written a great book, tightly argued, but expansive in scope. He shows how contemporary political thought and action have been handcuffed by the persistent attempt to transcend historical and cultural specificity. His compelling alternative of 'public imagination' avoids multiculturalism's identity fetishism by understanding culture as a process through which selves can reflect upon, reason about, and revise their lives with others.\" -- John McGowan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy's Children\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405129490775,"sku":"9780801443855","price":44.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801443855.jpg?v=1730488801","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hiding-from-history-9780801443855","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}