"Lessons" of the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Lessons" of the Past write by Ernest R. May. This book was released on 1975. "Lessons" of the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lessons from the Past?
Lessons from the Past? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lessons from the Past? write by Bernhard Forchtner. This book was released on 2016-11-17. Lessons from the Past? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reconstructs how claims to know ‘the lessons’ from past wrongdoings are made useful in the present. These claims are powerful tools in contemporary debates over who we are, who we want to be and what we should do. Drawing on a wide range of spoken and written texts from Austria, Denmark, Germany and the United States, this book proposes an abstract framework through which such claims can be understood. It does so by conceptualising four rhetorics of learning and how each of them links memories of past wrongdoings to opposition to present and future wrongdoings. Drawing extensively on narrative theory, Lessons from the Past? reconstructs how links between past, present and future can be narrativised, thus helping to understand the subjectivities and feelings that these stories facilitate. The book closes by considering if and how such rhetorics might live up to their promise to know ‘the lessons’ and to enable learning, offering a revised theory of collective learning processes.
Lessons from the Past
Lessons from the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lessons from the Past write by Frances Anne Pownall. This book was released on 2010-02-09. Lessons from the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus of this discussion into an important period. By focusing on key intellectuals and historians of the fourth century (Plato and the major historians -- Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus), she examines how these prose writers created an aristocratic version of the past as an alternative to the democratic version of the oratorical tradition. Frances Pownall is Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta.
Lessons from History
Lessons from History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lessons from History write by Alex Deane. This book was released on 2021-08-31. Lessons from History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History is full to the brim with untold tales of heroics and villainy, gruesome battles, hilarious happenings and downright bizarre coincidences. Meet the war veteran who lost an eye and amputated his own fingers. Discover the original Die Hards, whose bravery would put even Bruce Willis to shame. Just who stole the still-missing Irish crown jewels and how did Adeline, Countess of Cardigan, scandalise society so completely? In Lessons from History, Alex Deane takes us on an uproarious romp through the tales you didn't hear at school. With stories ranging from the little-known characters who played their vital parts in the world's most famous wars to the remarkable adventures of figures across the centuries, to events so extraordinary as to be almost – almost – unbelievable, this book proves that fact is almost always wilder than fiction. Bringing these stories joyfully and often poignantly back to life, Deane finally shines a light on the tales lost to history, and on what we might learn from them today.
The Lessons of History
The Lessons of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lessons of History write by Will Durant. This book was released on 2012-08-21. The Lessons of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ideas, and accomplishments with cycles of war and conquest, the Durants reveal the towering themes of history and give meaning to our own.
