- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Southgate, Beverley C.
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005
- Contents
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Humanities and therapeutic education
History for its own sake
The Holy Grail of truth
'For its own sake'?
Straw men?
Professed purposes
Transferable skills
'Cultivation'
Myth-breaking
Theological confirmations and questionings
Obligations to the dead
Hidden agendas
Political puppertry: the case of Germany
Justifying the status quo
Discipline and power
The gender of history
Life and needs in postmodernity
Postmodernity
Centres and certainties
Order
Direction
Problems of identity: selfhood and others
History in postmodernity: future prospects
Closure and openness
Self, narrativity and meaning: personal and national identities
Historic moments and empowerment: making choices
Colonising the future: towards a better world
Histories for postmodernity
some aspirations
Realism, pessimism, hope
History and myth again
The labyrinth of language
Transferable qualities
Histories for postmodernity
some examples
Robert A. Rosenstone and Japan
Peter Novick and the Holocaust
Sven Lindqvist and bombing
Tzvetan Todorov and hope.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-208) and index.
Humanities and therapeutic education -- History for its own sake -- The Holy Grail of truth -- 'For its own sake'? -- Straw men? -- Professed purposes -- Transferable skills -- 'Cultivation' -- Myth-breaking -- Theological confirmations and questionings -- Obligations to the dead -- Hidden agendas -- Political puppertry: the case of Germany -- Justifying the status quo -- Discipline and power -- The gender of history -- Life and needs in postmodernity -- Postmodernity -- Centres and certainties -- Order -- Direction -- Problems of identity: selfhood and others -- History in postmodernity: future prospects -- Closure and openness -- Self, narrativity and meaning: personal and national identities -- Historic moments and empowerment: making choices -- Colonising the future: towards a better world -- Histories for postmodernity -- some aspirations -- Realism, pessimism, hope -- History and myth again -- The labyrinth of language -- Transferable qualities -- Histories for postmodernity -- some examples -- Robert A. Rosenstone and Japan -- Peter Novick and the Holocaust -- Sven Lindqvist and bombing -- Tzvetan Todorov and hope.
