发表于2024-12-23
The Killing of History 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 史学理论 历史 history 社会史 新史学 文学理论 政治学 英文书籍
In "The Killing of History", Windschuttle offers a devastating expose of attempts to substitute radically chic theorizing for real knowledge about the past. The result is revolutionary and unprecedented: contemporary historians are increasingly obscuring the facts on which truth about the past is built. Windschuttle offers a devastating expose of these developments. This fascinating narrative leads us into a series of case histories that demonstrate how radical theory has attempted to replace the learning of traditional history with its own political agenda.
Windschuttle's book is a courageous effort to engage the forces of theory and post-structuralism that are destroying history as an area of interest to those outside academia's ivory tower / padded cell. Besides taking on those who would deny the value of empirical history, Windschuttle deconstructs the decontsructionists. Whilst the work of any human is always open to improvement, Keith Windschuttlle deserves the garlands and praise of students throughout the world - students who have had to bite their lips whilst the noble pursuit of historical truth has been perverted into yet another turgid, theoretical social science. Great Stuff. G A F Connolly
The killing of History first impresses the reader by the erudition of its author. Numerous and various researches are quoted, philosophical works resumed, schools of thoughts presented. Conducting his plea, the author first reviews in each chapter a major research belonging to the perspective he aims at criticising. His review appears frequently "objective" and the author seems to have had the ambition (at least for most of the chapters) to review the object of his critics adopting a neutral perspective. Then he proposes his comments trying to convince the reader that the traditional understanding of history or science has nothing to learn from the recent developments in philosophy of science. Windschuttle regularly fails in his attempt to rally all readers to his cause, mainly by the fact that he does not adopt the arguments of his opponents in order to criticise them (from the inside), in order to provide deconstructive critics. To that extent, Windschuttle does not further the debate, does not radically change it but rather offers more arguments to support his position, without breaking the legitimacy of his opponents. The killing of History may not further the debate, however, it is an impressive review of the various tendencies influencing not only history but the current reflection on knowledge and the scientific discourse in diverse disciplines.
作者早年拥护新左派运动,后来右倾,现在是澳洲最主要的保守主义“史学家”(因为他没有拿到博士,所以澳洲专业史家认为他没有资格自称历史学家)。他的“名著” Fabrication of Aboriginal History,认为澳洲史学家为了政治目的,捏造了澳洲土著被屠杀的历史。几乎遭到了整个澳洲史学界的攻击,以至于出了一本Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History来驳斥。在这本The Killing of History中,他逐条批判了坊间各类后现代、后结构、马克思主义的文学、哲学和社会理论对历史的论述和实践的荒谬。
评分部分对文学与社会理论的批评还是到肉的,我也一向很讨厌流行于学术圈的滥用批判理论写历史的人(其实哲学、社会学、人类学和政治学家写的历史也常常是重灾区),但这本书的驳斥部分却做的很差。这本书的套路就是1.把所有理论论述转述成最极端的形式 2.找部分使用了极端理论形式且史料学部分处理比较失败的书进行批评(或是误读某些书的论点然后进行批评) 3.完全拒斥在史料学基础上部分借鉴一些社会理论的方法论视角。最后作者也承认历史也不一定就完全反映了现实、史料和历史现实也不是一回事,但后面又反问“难道这还要理论家来提醒?”这也等于间接承认理论家说的也有对的地方。于是这本书最终给人以为了批评而(树立假想敌)批评的感觉,这种论述方式和这本书所批评的批判理论也真是异曲同工,大概也是挺讽刺的一件事情。。。
评分chapter1 看作者吐槽各种各种理论各种学派还挺痛快的喔~刚刚看完De Ceteau的general introduction 频临被洗脑,就马上看到他遭到吐槽。好有趣!
评分作者早年拥护新左派运动,后来右倾,现在是澳洲最主要的保守主义“史学家”(因为他没有拿到博士,所以澳洲专业史家认为他没有资格自称历史学家)。他的“名著” Fabrication of Aboriginal History,认为澳洲史学家为了政治目的,捏造了澳洲土著被屠杀的历史。几乎遭到了整个澳洲史学界的攻击,以至于出了一本Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History来驳斥。在这本The Killing of History中,他逐条批判了坊间各类后现代、后结构、马克思主义的文学、哲学和社会理论对历史的论述和实践的荒谬。
评分作者早年拥护新左派运动,后来右倾,现在是澳洲最主要的保守主义“史学家”(因为他没有拿到博士,所以澳洲专业史家认为他没有资格自称历史学家)。他的“名著” Fabrication of Aboriginal History,认为澳洲史学家为了政治目的,捏造了澳洲土著被屠杀的历史。几乎遭到了整个澳洲史学界的攻击,以至于出了一本Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History来驳斥。在这本The Killing of History中,他逐条批判了坊间各类后现代、后结构、马克思主义的文学、哲学和社会理论对历史的论述和实践的荒谬。
The Killing of History 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书