Abstract
Introduction: Values, Responsibilities, History / Ann Rigney --
1. Distance and Perspective: Reflections on Two Metaphors / Carlo Ginzburg --
2. 'Do Your Thing' / Peter Gay --
3. Moral Commitment and Scholarly Detachment: The Social Function of the Historian / Wolfgang J. Mommsen --
4. Historical Objectivity as a Matter of Social Values / Jorn Rusen --
5. The Historian's Craft, Historicity, and Ethics / Francois Bedarida --
6. Responsibilities: Two Cheers for Liberalism / Ed Jonker --
7. Between Social History and Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and the Practice of the Historian at the End of the Twentieth Century / Geoff Eley --
8. Monk or Courtier? Social Values and the Future of the Humanities / Arthur Mitzman --
9. 'Italian' History versus French Heritage: Cultural Criticism, Positivism, and Political Commitment in Taine / Jo Tollebeek --
10. In Defense of Engagement: The Social Uses of History in a Time of Intellectual Abdication / Michael Adas --
11. Women and the Silences of History / Michelle Perrot --
12. Towards a New National History: Lieux de memoire and Other Theaters of Memory / Niek van Sas --
13. Traumatic Events and Historical Consciousness: Who is in Charge? / Lucette Valensi --
Afterword / Richard Rorty.
1. Distance and Perspective: Reflections on Two Metaphors / Carlo Ginzburg --
2. 'Do Your Thing' / Peter Gay --
3. Moral Commitment and Scholarly Detachment: The Social Function of the Historian / Wolfgang J. Mommsen --
4. Historical Objectivity as a Matter of Social Values / Jorn Rusen --
5. The Historian's Craft, Historicity, and Ethics / Francois Bedarida --
6. Responsibilities: Two Cheers for Liberalism / Ed Jonker --
7. Between Social History and Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and the Practice of the Historian at the End of the Twentieth Century / Geoff Eley --
8. Monk or Courtier? Social Values and the Future of the Humanities / Arthur Mitzman --
9. 'Italian' History versus French Heritage: Cultural Criticism, Positivism, and Political Commitment in Taine / Jo Tollebeek --
10. In Defense of Engagement: The Social Uses of History in a Time of Intellectual Abdication / Michael Adas --
11. Women and the Silences of History / Michelle Perrot --
12. Towards a New National History: Lieux de memoire and Other Theaters of Memory / Niek van Sas --
13. Traumatic Events and Historical Consciousness: Who is in Charge? / Lucette Valensi --
Afterword / Richard Rorty.