In a challenge to contemporary historians and cultural critics, this book proposes that the "autonomy" and "necessity" of history, and the concepts of "historicity" and "historicality," are academic myths which block critical access to the reality of the present. For Professor Cohen, narrative history promotes a false comparability of past and present, which renders the present unknowable.
- ISBN10 0520055659
- ISBN13 9780520055650
- Publish Date August 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 November 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 461
- Language English