Allan Megill
Auteur de Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida
A propos de l'auteur
Allan Megill is professor of history at the University of Virginia
Crédit image: R. Felski
Œuvres de Allan Megill
The Many Faces of Clio: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Historiography, Essays in Honor of Georg G. Iggers (2006) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
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This book is incredibly clearly reasoned and well-written. Megill is very smart and has spent decades thinking about these issues. His parsing of difficult concepts like "objectivity" is quite useful for determining just what is at stake and what the possible positions are, whether you ultimately concur with him about the necessity of certain types of objectivity or not. Yet, I am somewhat troubled by his criticism of non-traditional histories and memory studies, which seems too dismissive of the efforts of progressive historians to combine social justice with academic rigor.… (plus d'informations)