Haunting History

For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past

By:

Ethan Kleinberg

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Hardback

Series:

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the practice and writing of history at a moment when available forms for writing and publishing history are undergoing radical transformation. To do so, it explores the legacy and impact of deconstruction on American historical work; the current fetishization of lived experience, materialism, and the "real;" new trends in philosophy of history; and the persistence of ontological realism as the dominant mode of thought for conventional historians. Arguing that this ontological realist mode of thinking is reinforced by current analog publishing practices, Ethan Kleinberg advocates for a hauntological approach to history that follows the work of Jacques Derrida and embraces a past that is at once present and absent, available and restricted, rather than a fixed and static snapshot of a moment in time. This polysemic understanding of the past as multiple and conflicting, he maintains, is what makes the deconstructive approach to the past particularly well suited to new digital forms of historical writing and presentation.

Author Biography:

Ethan Kleinberg is Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University and the author of Generation Existential: Heidegger's Philosophy in France, 1927–1961 (2005).

Release date NZ

August 22nd, 2017

Author

Ethan Kleinberg

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

208

Series

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

ISBN-13

9781503602373

Product ID

26720364

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