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In the past thirty years, historians have broadened the scope of their discipline to include many previously neglected topics and perspectives. They have chronicled language, madness, gender, and sexuality and have experimented with new forms of presentation. They have turned to the histories of non-Western peoples and to the troubled relations between “the West” and the rest. Allan Megill welcomes these developments, but he also suggests that there is now confusion among historians about what counts as a justified account of the past.
In Historical Knowledge, Historical Error, Megill dispels some of the confusion. Here, he discusses issues of narrative, objectivity, and memory. He attacks what he sees as irresponsible uses of evidence while accepting the art of speculation, which incomplete evidence forces upon historians. Along the way, he offers succinct accounts of the epistemological road historians have traveled from Herodotus and Thucydides through Leopold von Ranke and Alexis de Tocqueville, and on to Hayden White, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Lynn Hunt.
- Sales Rank: #349085 in Books
- Published on: 2007-02-01
- Released on: 2007-02-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .90" w x 6.00" l, .89 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
Review
“Historical Knowledge, Historical Error is part of a resurgence of interest in the philosophy of history. Allan Megill knows his history and is more than usually sophisticated as a philosopher. He has useful and wise things to say on a host of topics including memory, counterfactuals, narrative, and professionalization. By no means do I agree with all�that Megill has argued, but he is intelligent, clear, and displays a scholarly integrity that is rock-solid. The book deserves our extended attention.”--Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania
(Bruce Kuklick 2006-09-28)
“Megill’s book represents a major and much-needed intervention in the debates that have engaged historians and philosophers of history in the last two or three decades. Coming from someone who has thought deeply, carefully, and long on the meanings of historical objectivity for our times, this is a book that presents a fresh and clear point of view. Megill’s argument deserves attention from everybody who wonders about where the discipline of history might be headed once the dust has settled on the tired debates over objectivity versus relativist skepticism.”--Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
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"With this rigorous and lucid work, Megill has made a major contribution to the understanding of historical thought. . . . In brief, this is a work of exceptional value. Essential." (Choice 2007-07-01)
"The essays are to acquaint students with contemporary challenges of improper methodology or epistemology, to be overcome like the (more numerous) labors of Hercules." (John L. Harvey H-France)
"This is a rewarding book. In ten essays, Allan Megill explores some of the most pressing challenges and worrisome pitfalls in modern historical practice. . . . These challenging and stimulating essays succeed well . . .�in affirming that history works best when it is sharply distinguished from the present. Indeed, by remaining true to its core disciplinary methods and ideals, history can serve, Megill movingly concludes, 'as a model of honesty and intelligence in the investigation of the human world.'" (Christopher Layne Journal of American History 2007-12-01)
"Demanding intellectual rigor, Megill re-defines familiar terms and interjects his own firm opinions, leading readers along a circuitous path through the brambles of his own impressive learning. Readers can only trail along after this insightful and candid guide as he provocatively cites noted philosophers and historians, chastising them for solecisms. . . . To read his essays is like auditing a bracing seminar conducted by a stimulating, opinionated teacher." (Raymond Grew Journal of Interdisciplinary History)
"This is an engaged book: it energetically attempts to provide 'a contemporary guide to practice,' to ward off historical error by the discriminating constitution of historical knowledge. At the heart of the book is Megill's long-standing engagement with the concept of 'objectivity,' and his effort to reconstitute the notion in terms of its many and nested significations." (John H. Zammito Journal of Southern History)
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In the past thirty years, historians have broadened the scope of their discipline to include many previously neglected topics and perspectives. They have chronicled language, madness, gender, and sexuality and have experimented with new forms of presentation. They have turned to the histories of non-Western peoples and to the troubled relations between “the West” and the rest. Allan Megill welcomes these developments, but he also suggests that there is now confusion among historians about what counts as a justified account of the past.
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About the Author
Allan Megill is professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Prophets of Extremity:Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida and Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market), and editor of Rethinking Objectivity.
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An Important Book on an Important Subject
By Richard B. Schwartz
I am very surprised to see that I am the first to review this important book, 9 years after its appearance. The book is a collection of several separately-published or separately-delivered pieces, but they have been revised considerably for this volume. The author’s goal is to discuss the epistemology of historiography. What can we learn and communicate? How ‘objective’ is our knowledge? What can be reclaimed from the past and what is lost forever? So-called grand narratives are now deemed unattainable; the focus is on so-called cultural history. What kind of narratives are, in fact, possible? And what are the limits of cultural history?
The author’s specific goal is quite clear. He is attempting to counter the hegemony of Foucault, today’s default position, because while Foucault was brilliant and original his “insistence that knowledge is nothing but a manifestation of power is a simplifying and ultimately very dangerous claim” (p. 13). His own view is that history should not be a mode of propaganda and cheerleading. The “true historian’s devotion [is] to letting the chips fall where they may” (p. 14). Rather than try to cheer the traditionalists or chasten the true Foucauldian believers he writes “for the as yet uninitiated, as an introduction to the issues that are at stake” (p. 14).
What follows are ten, detailed chapters. They are fairly complex. Some are quite abstract, so abstract in fact that he suggests that the reader may wish to read them out of order, to make the task a smoother and easier one. Subjects include the relationship between history and memory, the cognitive value of narrative, the multiple tasks of history writing, the importance of counterfactual history, coherence and incoherence in historiography and the plight of ‘grand narrative’ in the face of postmodern challenge. There is a very interesting case study in historical epistemology: “What Did the Neighbors Know about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings?” (chapter six).
The book is always trenchant and never dull but it does, at points, become extremely abstract, with relatively few historical examples offered. It is longer than it appears. The 215+ pp. of text are styled in such a way that we are actually reading what would normally be closer to 300 pp. of text. There are 50 pp. of detailed notes.
I applaud the author’s purposes and I enjoyed the book, though it is a more difficult read than his well-known book Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida.
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