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Author Windschuttle, Keith, 1942-

Title The killing of history : how literary critics and social theorists are murdering our past / Keith Windschuttle.

Imprint San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  907.2 W724k 2000 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  907.2 W724k 2000    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st pbk. ed.
Description xv, 372 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Originally published: Paddington, NSW, Australia : Macleay Press, 1996.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Paris labels and designer concepts: the ascension of cultural studies and the deluge of social theory -- The omnipotence of signs: semiotics and the conquest of America -- Bad language and theatrical gestures: structuralism and ethnohistory in the Pacific -- The deconstruction imperial history: poststructuralism and the founding of Australia -- The discourse of Michel Foucault : post structuralism and anti-humanism -- The fall of Communism and the end of history: from posthistory to postmodernism -- History as a social science: relativism, hermeneutics and induction -- History as literature: fiction, poetics and criticism -- The return of tribalism: cultural relativism, structuralism and the death of Cook.
Subject Historiography.
Historicism.
Historicism. (OCoLC)fst00958216
Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
ISBN 1893554120 (pbk.)
9781893554122 (pbk.)

 
    
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