This important handbook brings together in one volume discussions of the role of modernity, empiricism, realism, post-modernity and deconstruction in the historian’s craft. Chapters are written by leading writers from around the world and cover a wide spread of historical sub-disciplines, such as social history, intellectual history, narrative, gender, memory, psycho-analysis and cultural studies, taking in, along the way, the work of thinkers such as Paul Ricouer, Michel Foucault and Hayden White. The Sage Handbook of Historical Theory is an essential resource for practicing historians, and students of history, and will appeal to scholars in related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities who seek a closer understanding of the theoretical foundations of history.

Recovering the Self: Agency after Deconstruction

Recovering the Self: Agency after Deconstruction

Recovering the self: Agency after deconstruction
David GaryShaw

The question of historical agency grows from the factual quartet that in the past people wanted, willed, tried and suffered. Agency occurs whenever a person generates some event or idea, a word or deed, possibly something unique, and pushes on because of it. In small acts of going to work, caring for friends, ...

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