On the edge of the cliff
Subtitle: history, language, and practices
By: Roger Chartier ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
Series: Parallax; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: History -- Philosophy.; Language and history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-188) and index.
Collection of previously published (1983-1994) essays, articles, etc. translated from the French.
Table of contents: value: History between narrative and knowledge; value: Four questions for Hayden White; value: Michel de Certeau : history, or knowledge of the other; value: The chimera of the origin : archaeology of knowledge, cultural history, and the French Revolution; value: Discourses and practices : on the origins of the French Revolution; value: Texts, forms, and interpretations; value: The powers and limits of representation; value: Self-consciousness and the social bond; value: The double bind and detachment; value: Sports, or the controlled decontrolling of emotions; value: Epilogue : friendship with history : Philippe Ariès.