An excerpt from the second edition of The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past. History is an intellectual discipline which is more than 2,400 years old. It ranks with philosophy and mathematics as one of the most...
Keith Windschuttle
Keith Windschuttle is author of The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past.
The State of the Discipline of History
An excerpt from the afterword of the second edition of The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past.
History, Truth and Postmodernism
The writing of history is one of the most enduring cultural activities of Western civilisation. It originated in ancient Greece some 2400 years ago and has continued in roughly the same form down to this day. Its first great practitioner, Thucydides, decided that to...
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