Hiding from history
Subtitle: politics and public imagination
By: Meili Steele.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780801443855
Subjects: Public history.; Historiography.; History -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history debates as a crisis for liberalism; title: Eliding public imagination : the example of Habermas's isolation of principles from history; title: Avoiding judgment : structuralist and postructuralist approaches to history; title: Reasoning through public imagination; title: The politics of race and imagination : Arendt versus Ellison on Little Rock; title: Globalization and the clash of cultures; title: Is there no such thing as principle?.