ABOUT THIS BOOK

What is implied by "ethics of history"? The authors of this volume, internationally renowned philosophers and intellectual historians, address this question in all its novelty and ambiguity and develop varied perspectives on the place and nature of ethics in the philosophy, enterprise, and practice of history.

Is the whole historical process--largely consisting of the actions and sufferings of persons and groups--subject to ethical constraint? And what of the ways in which historians present their subject matter; are these methods subject to moral scrutiny? Although they approach these issues from different directions, the contributors agree in their critique of the correspondence theory of history, tin their acceptance of an unbridgeable gap between the past and the historian's present account, and in their call for a revision of the popular appeal to historical objectivity.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

David Carr is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

Thomas R. Flynn is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

Rudolf A. Makkreel is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Emory University.

REVIEWS

"It is rare that every essay in a collection is well worth reading, but that is the case in this illuminating and stimulating volume." —The Journal of the History of Philosophy

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Part 1. Historical Representation
In Praise of Subjectivity by F. R. Ankersmit
Representation, Narrative, and the Historian's Promise by Edith Wyschogrod
Some Aspects of the Ethics of History-Writing: Reflections on Edith Wyschogrod's An Ethics of Remembering by Allan Megill
Prudence, History, Time, and Truth by Arthur Danto

Part 2. Postmodernist Challenges
No Tear Shall Be Lost: The History of Prayers and Tears by John D. Caputo
The Tomb of Perseverance: On Antigone by Joan Copjec
The Confession of Augustine by Jean-François Lyotard
The Limits of Ethics and History by Joseph Margolis

Part 3. History and Responsibility
Responsibility and Irresponsibility in Historical Studies: A Critical Consideration of the Ethical Dilemma in the Historian's Work by Jörn Rüsen
An Ethically Responsive Hermeneutics of History by Rudolf A. Makkreel
Committed History by Thomas R. Flynn
History, Fiction, and Human Time: Historical Imagination and Historical Responsibility by David Carr

Notes on Contributors

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