History out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History.(Book review)
CLIO, September, 2006 by Carrand, Phillippe
History out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History. By Sande Cohen. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. vii 307 pages.
Over the years, Sande Cohen has established himself as one of the harshest critics of the academy in general, and the historical discipline in particular. As its title already indicates, History out of Joint is no more indulgent towards current historical endeavors than Cohen's preceding books, Historical Culture (1986), Academia and the Luster of Capital (1993), and Passive Nihilism (1998). Made of a series of essays, the study first attacks what Cohen takes to be the "wrong" or "bad" use of history both in the media and in scholarly research. It then analyzes philosophical texts which should make it possible to...
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