Hiding from History: Politics and Public Imagination

by H. Meili Steele

In Hiding from History, Meili Steele challenges an assumption at the heart of current debates in political, literary, historical, and cultural theory: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought "hide from history" liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as J?rgen Habermas, Martha Nussbaum, and John Rawls and structuralism/poststructuralism as practiced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801443857
• ISBN13: 9780801443855
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher