The Virtues of Methodological Pluralism in Historical Accounts
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Authors
Rix, Matthew Edward
Issue Date
2000
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The purpose of the "history of historiography" is two-fold. First, it will
demonstrate that the search for a univocal method of historiography is misguided.
So is the anxiety that besets contemporary historiography that if historians cannot
identify a single methodology to guarantee objectivity we will be left with
subjectivism. Second, historical inquiry can be characterized as a scientific
endeavor with nevertheless artistic elements. The perspectival aspect of the
historian's creative action, while having a pluralizing effect, does not necessary
plunge historiography into a devastating skepticism; it merely demands that the
historian recognize other perspectives as in fact necessary for representing a
complex social event more faithfully.
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iii, 212 p.
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