num_pages: 352
description: This important and stimulating volume seeks to defend the value of historical understanding in the face of social-scientific and especially postmodernist criticisms of historical method and the usefulness of history for understanding the present. Clark argues that modernism and postmodernism can both be explained historically; that we cannot emancipate ourselves from the past; that historical identities are deeply rooted; and that the interplay of ideas in the public arena frequently disguises these truths, but does not abolish them.
language: English
title: Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism, and History
titlecomplete: Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism, and History
genres: History
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Stanford University Press