{"product_id":"truth-morality-and-meaning-in-history-9781487523381","title":"Truth Morality and Meaning in History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians  aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology  have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning. This is less so in the thriving general community of history enthusiasts beyond academia, and may explain, in part at least, history’s sharp decline as a subject of choice by students in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhillips sees great dangers resulting from the thinking of extreme relativists and postmodernists on the futility of attaining historical truth, especially in the age of post-truth. He also believes that moral judgment and the search for meaning in history should be considered part of the discipline’s mandate. In each section of this study, Phillips outlines the nature of individual issues and past efforts to address them, including approaches derived from other\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Phillips's book is not a thundering polemic but, rather, a quiet, reasoned meditation. [...] The author is generally an erudite guide, and he packs a great many observations as to the history and philosophy of history into 134 pages of text.\" -- Alan MacHeachern, Western University * \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface    Introduction    1. Truth 2. Morality  3. Meaning  4. History Beyond the Academy    Conclusion    Notes    Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409153466711,"sku":"9781487523381","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487523381.jpg?v=1730505661","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/truth-morality-and-meaning-in-history-9781487523381","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}