Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History

Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History
ISBN-10
0801865352
ISBN-13
9780801865350
Category
History
Pages
440
Language
English
Published
2000-11-15
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Thomas L. Haskell

Description

Recent challenges to the principles of truth and objectivity mark an awareness of a tension between thing and knower which goes back to ancient Greece. In this text, the author argues for a moderate historicism which acknowledges the force of perspective but avoids the evasiveness of postmodernism.

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