Names of History: On the Poetics of Knowledge

by Jacques Rancière

Book Overview

History in our day is still a story, and yet one from which we expect to tell the truth - not just the facts, the names and events of the past, but the invisible order and forces behind them. How can the language of history balance these seemingly contrary tasks - the narrative, the scientific, and the political? This is the question Jacques Ranciere explores in "The names of history", a meditation on the poetics of historical knowledge. In the works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816624038
• ISBN13: 9780816624034
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"