Full History: On the Meaningfulness of Shared Action

by Steven G. Smith

Book Overview

How can we take history seriously as real and relevant? Despite the hazards of politically dangerous or misleading accounts of the past, we live our lives in a great network of cooperation with other actors; past, present, and future. We study and reflect on the past as a way of exercising a responsibility for shared action.

In each of the chapters of Full History Smith poses a key question about history as a concern for conscious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350212563
• ISBN13: 9781350212565
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"