This textbook provides an evaluation and overview of the state of history as it is imagined, conceptualized and practised in 2003. Taking an explicitly postmodernist position and opposed to empiricism, the book assumes that the past and history are in fact different.
This book offers an understanding and analysis of the aesthetics of historying through the specific concepts and process of the fabricated, factitious, factional, factious, factitive, factive, factualist, fictitious, fictive and the figurative.