Objectivity Is Not Neutrality

In Objectivity Is Not Neutrality, Haskell argues for a moderate historicism that acknowledges the force of perspective and reaffirms the pluralistic practices of a liberal democratic society - even while upholding time-honored distinctions between fact and fiction, scholarship and propaganda, right and might. Rather than simply telling stories of events or delivering the historian's familiar "report from the archives," Haskell address questions that will interest philosophers and literary theorists no less than historians. In this book terms such as moral obligation, convention, interest, and…