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Posthistoire : Has History Come to an End? by Lutz Niethammer in collaboration with Dirk van Laak is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Whether Its Ultimate Resting-place Is Deemed To Be Fukuyama's Liberal Democracy Or Baudrillard's Hyperreality, History, According To A Number Of Pundits, Has Reached The End Of The Line. In The Inflated Debates That Have Ensued, It Is Precisely History Which Has Often Been Ignored, For The Conception Of Posthistoire Is Far From New. Here, Lutz Niethammer, Germany's Leading Practitioner Of 'history From Below', Explores In Revealing Detail The Forms The Conception Has Taken In The Twentieth Century, And Assembles What Amounts To An Intellectual History Of Disillusion And Resignation. Niethammer Finds Adherents To The Idea Of The End Of History Among Thinkers Of The Right And Left. But Whether They Pinned Their Hopes On The Nation Or The Proletariat, In Different Ways They Have All Conflated The Apparent Collapse Of A Particular Historical Project With The Collapse Of History Itself. Niethammer Gives A Fascinating Analysis Of The Jaundiced Reaction Of Intellectual Elites During The Interwar Years To The Rise Of Mass Culture And The Crises Of Mass Movements. And He Offers A Fruitful Contrast Through An Evocative Reading Of Walter Benjamin's Work As A Historian. Benjamin, Too, Saw Omin

Author

Lutz Niethammer in collaboration with Dirk van Laak

Publisher

London ; New York: Verso

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780860913955

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Humanities