In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present. Historians usually tend to assume such continuous identities of present attitudes and activities with past ones, and rarely question them; the contention here is that this gives us a false image of the very things in the past that we went to look for.
| ISBN: | 9781138110328 |
| Publication date: | 22nd May 2017 |
| Author: | Andrew Cunningham |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 284 pages |
| Series: | Variorum Collected Studies |
| Genres: |
Philosophy History of medicine History of science Historiography Philosophy of science History and Archaeology |