- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Columbia University Press (November 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0231102453
- ISBN-13: 978-0231102452
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.1 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 426 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,301,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Marks the appearance of a major new voice on the current critical scene. . . . The essays are not only learned and informed by a rich awareness of current polemics, they are also elegantly written, clear-eyed, and both witty and wise. -- Hayden White Stanford University
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In a rich, thought-provoking work, Roth explores central questions in the philosophy of history. The Ironist's Cage asks why we are interested in having a past, why we try to recollect it, and what desires we hope to satisfy through this recollection.
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This review is from: The Ironist's Cage: Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History (Paperback)
For better or worse the "history of history" has become a major precoccupation for intellectual historians. Scholars such as Carl Schorske, Robert Darnton, Hayden White, and Rogier Chartier have contributed valuable insights into the ways in which we conceive history. Within this context, Roth's book is a simplistic attempt to summarize "the history of the history of history." His explications and interpretations are not only typical examples of academic hermeticism; they are also clunky and obvious. The attempt to present the writing of history as analogous to pschoanalysis suggests that the author has only the most superficial understanding of either discipline.You would be well advised to skip this book and go to the sources already mentioned, as well as to such important historians as Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Cippoli, Jacques Le Goff, Jackson Lears, Anson Rabinbach, Terry Castle, or any number of others. These scholars have come to their theoretical positions the old fashioned way--by undertaking original, primary research that led them to question their methods and assumptions--and for that reason have a vitality and engagement with the issues lacking here.
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This review is from: The Ironist's Cage: Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History (Paperback)
For better or worse the "history of history" has become a major precoccupation for intellectual historians. Scholars such as Carl Schorske, Robert Darnton, Hayden White, and Rogier Chartier have contributed valuable insights into the ways in which we conceive history. Within this context, Roth's book is a simplistic attempt to summarize "the history of the history of history." His explications and interpretations are not only typical examples of academic hermeticism; they are also clunky and obvious. The attempt to present the writing of history as analogous to pschoanalysis suggests that the author has only the most superficial understanding of either discipline.You would be well advised to skip this book and go to the sources already mentioned, as well as to such important historians as Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Cippoli, Jacques Le Goff, Jackson Lears, Anson Rabinbach, Terry Castle, or any number of others. These scholars have come to their theoretical positions the old fashioned way--by undertaking original, primary research that led them to question their methods and assumptions--and for that reason have a vitality and engagement with the issues lacking here. |
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