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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this stimulating work, 10 contemporary historians exchange views on the current state of their discipline...Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *
The intention behind this book and the series of which it is a part seems to me wholly admirable...it is extremely attractive. * Religion & Liberty *
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword by James O. Pawelski Introduction by Darrin M. McMahon Chapter 1: "History, the Humanities, and the Human" D. Graham Burnett Chapter 2: "The Power of a Well-Told History" Maya Jasanoff Chapter 3: "In Defense of Presentism" David Armitage Chapter 4: "Wellbeing and a Usable Past: The Role of Historical Diagnosis" Peter N. Stearns Chapter 5: "Living the Good Life, Even Without Trying: The Strange Case of Consistent Luckiness in Aristotle" Peter T. Struck Chapter 6: "The Historical Sublime" Dan Edelstein Chapter 7: "Flourishing with Herodotus" Suzanne Marchand Chapter 8: "De Beata Historia: On History and Human Flourishing" Darrin M. McMahon Chapter 9: ""Beauty Is Universal"": Virtue, Aesthetics, Emotion, and Race in James Logan's Atlantic Moral Sense Philosophy" Nicole Eustace Chapter 10: "Toward a History of Black Happiness: Or, What Can African American History Tell Us about the Cultivation of Well-Being?" Mia Bay
