Rading the past

Essays by: Catherine Belsey, Walter Benjamin, Robert Darnton, Michel de Certeau, Shoshana Felman, Michel Foucautl, Stephen Greenblatt, Keith Jankins, Leszek Kolakowski, Jürgen Pieters, Carolyn Steeedman, Susan Willis Why do we try to read a past? Can we ever succeed? What is the difference between the past and history, or between histories and stories? These, and many other, questions are explored in this innovative collection of some of the most influential and provocative writings on the subject of reading the past.