Killing of History How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past

"...probably the most important and sobering new book of cultural criticism since Allan Bloom's 'The Closing of the American Mind.' It is also one of the most compelling books I have read all year. [He] tackles head-on the pernicious but widely held ideas that objective truth is an illusion and that history is nothing more than a fancy kind of literature: a sort of fiction with footnotes....Mr. Windschuttle demolishes the claims of...academic radicals, providing along the way some of the most telling arguments against cultural relativism I have seen anywhere. One of the things that makes his book so convincing--and engaging--is the way he uses specific historical examples to build his argument."Windschuttle, Keith is the author of 'Killing of History How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past', published 2000 under ISBN 9781893554122 and ISBN 1893554120.