Southgate draws on ideas within history, philosophy, literature, psychology, and theology to explore two traditions: contentment with our situation as it is, and the aspiration to transcend it. He discusses the possibility of escape from intellectual constraints, and advocates a positive 'duty of discontent', and its implications.

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BEVERLEY SOUTHGATE Reader Emeritus in History of Ideas at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. His many publications include Postmodernism in History (2003), What is History For? (2005), and History Meets Fiction (2009). He is currently working on aspects of history's relationships with art.

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Book Title: Contentment in Contention
Book Subtitle: Acceptance versus Aspiration
Authors: Beverley Southgate
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360884
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-35459-3Published: 02 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34655-4Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-36088-4Published: 01 December 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 208
Topics: Cultural History, History of Philosophy, Philosophy, general, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social Philosophy, Historiography and Method

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