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Disobedience reconsidered: history, theory, and the Morality of Scholarship

This essay vindicates the concept of disobedience that Keith Jenkins advocates in Rethinking History and At the Limits of History. Starting from the conflict between postmodern theories of knowledge and historical practice, it explores the psychopathological complexes, the affirmative social and cultural values, the complicity with political and economic power sustained by historical scholarship and its historicizing procedures, not least those elaborated in response to postmodernism. It thus argues that disobedience, ostensibly a purely academic disaffection, offers a basis for the micro-politics of opposition.