Beschreibung:
Ivan Jablonka's History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world. Jablonka argues that the act and art of writing, far from being an afterthought in the social sciences, should play a vital role in the production of knowledge in all stages of the researcher's work and embody or even constitute the understanding obtained. History (along with sociology and anthropology) can, he contends, achieve both greater rigor and wider audiences by creating a literary experience through a broad spectrum of narrative modes.
IntroductionPart I. The Great Divide1. Historians, Orators, and Writers2. The Novel, Father of History?3. History as Science and "Literary Germs"4. The Return of the Literary RepressedPart II. The Historical Way of Reasoning5. What Is History?6. Writers of History-as-Science7. Approaches to Veridiction8. Fictions of MethodPart III. Literature and the Social Sciences9. From Nonfiction to Literature-as-Truth10. History, a Literature under Constraint?11. The Research Text12. On Scholarship of the Twenty-First Century