num_pages: 363
description: In a challenge to contemporary historians and cultural critics, this book proposes that the "autonomy" and "necessity" of history, and the concepts of "historicity" and "historicality," are academic myths which block critical access to the reality of the present. For Professor Cohen, narrative history promotes a false comparability of past and present, which renders the present unknowable.
language: English
title: Historical Culture: On the Recoding of an Academic Discipline
titlecomplete: Historical Culture: On the Recoding of an Academic Discipline
ratings_count: 1
publisher: University of California Press