Twilight of History
Shlomo Sand
The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history today
Drawing on his four decades as a professional historian, Shlomo Sand interrogates the academic discipline of history, whose origin lay in the need for a national ideology. In the last few decades, traditional history has begun to fragment, yet only to give rise to a new role of historians as priests of official memory. Working in Israel has sharpened Sand's perspective, since the role of history as national myth is particularly salient in a country where the Bible is treated as a history book. He asks such questions as: Is every historical narrative ideologically marked? Do political requirements and state power weigh down inordinately on historical research and teaching? And, in such conditions, can there be a morally neutral and 'scientific' truth?
Despite his trenchant criticism of academic history, Sand would still like to believe that the past can be understood...
Drawing on his four decades as a professional historian, Shlomo Sand interrogates the academic discipline of history, whose origin lay in the need for a national ideology. In the last few decades, traditional history has begun to fragment, yet only to give rise to a new role of historians as priests of official memory. Working in Israel has sharpened Sand's perspective, since the role of history as national myth is particularly salient in a country where the Bible is treated as a history book. He asks such questions as: Is every historical narrative ideologically marked? Do political requirements and state power weigh down inordinately on historical research and teaching? And, in such conditions, can there be a morally neutral and 'scientific' truth?
Despite his trenchant criticism of academic history, Sand would still like to believe that the past can be understood...
출판사:
Verso Books
언어:
english
페이지:
304
ISBN 10:
1786630249
ISBN 13:
9781786630247
파일:
EPUB, 548 KB
IPFS:
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