Bøker av Alun Munslow

This book offers an understanding and analysis of the aesthetics of historying through the specific concepts and process of the fabricated, factitious, factional, factious, factitive, factive, factualist, fictitious, fictive and the figurative.

This textbook provides an evaluation and overview of the state of history as it is imagined, conceptualized and practised in 2003. Taking an explicitly postmodernist position and opposed to empiricism, the book assumes that the past and history are in fact different.

Provides an introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas, and theories, which have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathered pace since the 1990s. This book examines the key concepts for the history through the ideas of leading thinkers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Croce, and Collingwood.

Provides an introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history. This book: assesses the claims of history as a form of 'truthful' explanation; examines the arrival of 'experimental history' and its implications; clarifies the utility of addressing Michael Foucault and Hayden White; and presents an analysis of Frank R Ankersmit's work.

Deploying a range of key concepts such as scepticism, aesthetics, ethics, standpoint, irony, authorship and a new understanding of truth, The Future of History examines history as a form of knowledge, arguing that in the future the multiple forms of its expression will be as significant as its content.

Narrative and History explains the key concepts and practices in the composition and writing of history. It explores how knowledge of the ways in which historians author history affects many conventional understandings of its nature. Major concepts such as truth, objectivity, reference and representation are re-evaluated in radical ways.