Rethinking History: Keith Jenkins & Postmodernism

Based loosely on Keith Jenkins’ Rethinking History, this video looks at postmodernism effect on the writing of history, and how ideology, methodology and epistemology shape how history is written. I also look at Margaret Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob’s Telling the Truth About History, which emphasises how the history of America has changed over time. Thomas Kuhn’s paradigms and Michel Foucault’s epistemes make a guest appearance!

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Sources:

Keith Jenkins, Rethinking History.
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History.
Richard Evans, In Defence of History.
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States.

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[duxliberty]

If you genuinely read Evans' In defense of History, then you merely ignored absolutely everything in it and pushed your own narrative instead. Typical.

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[andrewcampbell]

Well we don’t don’t have lineages anymore. Lineage was always the authority in the past rather than a particular academic.

[eliasward]

All meaning is relational, and the implicit acceptance of a deterministic temporal system seems intertwined with the perceptual framework dictating it. People tend to let rather broad presuppositions govern their existential interactions, we do not we dont inhibit the same conceptual worlds.

[robertflury]

Post-modernism it's nothing but sophistry.

[John-lfxf]

Or you can just avoid all this by doing a social history and history of accounts of people present, such like that of the new left historians in the united states. you dont need any assumptions, other than what you would need to understand what people are saying in the past....

[doublehalf]

What Nobel prize winning historian are you referring to at around 7:00 ?

[John-lfxf]

I think one thing that needs to be understood is that when it comes to history, if it doesnt effect people in a way that no one knows about it, its never going down in the books. All history is is a collection of historical perceptions of people, and sometimes that can be an end in itself, but in terms of objective truth, if that is even important, we'll have to synthesize all the different sources of information(primary sources)

[AstroSquid]

flat earthers and post modernist, there is something to learn from both these groups. Does this statement seek truth, or power?

[toolmanproductions]

Interesting choice of the gentlemen drawing something that looks like Foucault's guard tower in the panopticon

[OnerousEthic]

6:00 _Telling the truth about history_: How the history of the United States has changed over time

[John-lfxf]

Im glad you mentioned Kuhn. Very important conversation there.

[jkam]

Absolutely excellent. Thanks for your work.

[alanwhite]

This is an argument for a post-modern approach to the writing of history using Foucault as a guide. Now we have a confession from Prof Christopher Dummitt (Trent U) that postmodern history is also a pack of different lies. Quillette, Sept. 17, 2019

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