The Killing of History

How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past

By: Keith Windschuttle

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A huge success in hardcover, The Killing of History argues that history today is in the clutches of literary and social theorists who have little respect for or training in the discipline. He believes that they deny the existence of truth and substitute radically chic theorizing for real knowledge about the past. The result is revolutionary and unprecedented: contemporary historians are increasingly obscuring the facts on which truth about the past is built. In The Killing of History, Windschuttle offers a devastating expose of these developments. This fascinating narrative leads us into a series of case histories that demonstrate how radical theory has attempted to replace the learning of traditional history with its own political agenda.

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Preface	p. ix
Paris Labels and Designer Concepts: The Ascension of Cultural Studies and the Deluge of Social Theory	p. 1
The Omnipotence of Signs: Semiotics and the Conquest of America	p. 39
Bad Language and Theatrical Gestures: Structuralism and Ethnohistory in the Pacific	p. 71
The Deconstruction of Imperial History: Poststructuralism and the Founding of Australia	p. 99
The Discourses of Michel Foucault: Poststructuralism and Anti-Humanism	p. 131
The Fall of Communism and the End of History: From Posthistory to Postmodernism	p. 173
History As a Social Science: Relativism, Hermeneutics and Induction	p. 203
History As Literature: Fiction, Poetics and Criticism	p. 251
The Return of Tribalism: Cultural Relativism, Structuralism and the Death of Cook	p. 279
Afterword	p. 315
Notes	p. 333
Acknowledgments	p. 353
Index	p. 357
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How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past

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