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The third issue of Historein: A Review of the Past and Other Stories has just been released. It is devoted to "European Ego-histoires: Historiography and the Self, 1970-2000", and guest edited by Luisa Passerini and Alexander C.T. Geppert. The issue thematizes the relationship between the historian and the writing of history, illuminating the conditions that have shaped present historiography. Eight prominent contemporary European historians “became historians of their own history,” and their contributions shed light on personal experiences, life-choices and political involvements, as they reflect on the intellectual adventures and professional trajectories that influenced their historiographical production.
Historein is an annual historical review published in Athens by Nefeli Publications and distributed internationally.
Contents:
Luisa Passerini and Alexander C.T. Geppert:
Introduction
Historians in Flux: The Concept, Task and Challenge of Ego-histoire
Pierre Nora:
L’ego-histoire est-elle possible?
John Brewer:
New Ways in History, or, Talking About My Generation
Antonis Liakos:
History Writing as the Return of the Repressed
Barbara Taylor:
Heroic Families and Utopian Histories
Leonid Borodkin:
From Science to History: Ego-history in the Context of Transition Society
Barbara Duden:
A Historian’s "Biology": On the Traces of the Body in a Technogenic World
Gareth Stedman Jones:
History and Theory: An English Story
Lutz Niethammer:
Living Memory and Historical Practice: A Personal Tale
Alexander C.T. Geppert
Historians and (Auto)Biography: A Select Bibliography
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