{"product_id":"history-out-of-joint-essays-on-the-use-and-abuse-of-history-parallax-revisions-of-culture-and-society-9780801882142","title":"History Out of Joint Essays on the Use and Abuse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsiders the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. This book looks at some struggles to control public history, examining popular newspaper accounts of events - misrepresentation from the bottom up - in geopolitics and art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCohen has established himself as one of the harshest critics of the academy in general, and the historical discipline in particular... Worth reading. -- Phillippe Carrard Clio 2006 Even the book's most contestable critical interventions produce valuable insights that might have been missed in a less ambitious book... The interest of the book consequently far exceeds the specific disciplinary frame professional historians would likely bring to it. -- Michael Mirabile Postmodern Culture 2006 Elegant and eloquent on the topic of how French theorists help us to understand the limitations of neopositivist constructions' temporality. -- Carolyn J. Dean Journal of Modern History 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Philosophical Prelude: On the Difference between an Event and a Narrative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: On Reading History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Nietzsche and Us: Last Readers\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. How to Make an Ahistorical People: The Island Taiwan\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Art Criticism and Intellectuals in Los Angeles: Desperate Narrations\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Figuring Forth the Historian Today: On Images and Goals\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. A Critical Analysis of the Historiographic Anecdote\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Affirmation and the Philosophy of History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Derrida's \"New Scholar\": Between Philosophy and History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Use and Abuse of History according to Jean-François Lyotard\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Genealogy of History according to Deleuze and Guattari\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Nothing Affirmative Ever Dies: Deleuze's Notion of Time and History in\u003ci\u003e Difference and Repetition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405201875287,"sku":"9780801882142","price":46.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801882142.jpg?v=1730489090","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/history-out-of-joint-essays-on-the-use-and-abuse-of-history-parallax-revisions-of-culture-and-society-9780801882142","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}