Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History

by Thomas L. Haskell

Book Overview

In Objectivity Is Not Neutrality, Thomas L. Haskell argues for a moderate historicism that acknowledges the force of perspective and reaffirms the pluralistic practices of a liberal democratic society-even while upholding time-honored distinctions between fact and fiction, scholarship and propaganda, right and might. Haskell addresses questions that will interest philosophers and literary theorists no less than historians, exploring topics ranging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801865352
• ISBN13: 9780801865350
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"