Abstract
This essay consists of what I term a ‘living obituary’. As such it contains some thoughts about Keith Jenkins himself, inasmuch as he has affected me personally, and then a brief consideration of two (of what I consider) defining characteristics of his thought: first, his total repudiation of the typically ‘modernist’ conception of ‘history’ and ‘historical consciousness’, and thence of ‘the past’ itself; and second, his advocacy of ‘disobedience’.