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LIBERATING HISTORIES
TRUTHS, POWER, ETHICS |
| By: |
Claire Norton |
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Paperback |
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£37.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
041585654X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415856546 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
15 January, 2018 |
| Synopsis: |
Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates about the cultural and political relevance of historical practices. More particularly, it seeks to orient discussion of history's ontology, methodologies and epistemology towards the category of ethics - exploring how historical praxis can usefully contribute to the formation of ethical subjectivities and a wider discourse of contemporary political engagement. The book challenges the still prevalent historicist understanding of history which is predicated upon realist or correspondence theories of truth, meaning and knowledge. In place of this realist model of historical enquiry, Norton and Donnelly argue that history can be most usefully understood as a situated, interpretative, inter-subjective genre that primarily serves politico-ethical purposes. History not as a means of representing or describing the past, but instead as a performative (and arguably transformative) activity. The book's analysis is divided between the main sections: Truths calls for the ongoing debate between what can be termed postmodern and representationalist historians to be set aside and replaced by more interesting, meaningful questions about the politico-philosophical nature of historical discourse and the social role that it plays. It examines how theorizing both meaning as use, and truth as a justificatory practice predicated on compliance with socially-determined norms, helps us to have a more pedagogically and heuristically useful discussion of the nature of historical knowledge and its societal functions. Power, recognizes, as a point of departure the subjective, positioned nature of historical discourse, and goes on to examine how history as a practice is both produced by and reproductive of discursive and institutional hegemonic matrices of power. In this section the authors explore how historical practices can be re-imagined in constructive ways, as tools that can be used for projects of political change and social emancipation. Ethics contends that history needs to be understood primarily as an inter-subjective, transformative, ethical praxis; a means by which we can critique past and present conditions and thereby discuss how we might imagine alternative social and political arrangements. Written in a lucid, accessible manner, this book combines insightful critical analysis and philosophical argument with clear case studies of how frameworks of power exert an influence on the narration of pasts in a variety of socio-political contexts and offers examples of what the 'historical genres' might look like if their ethical and political dimensions were explicitly acknowledged and encouraged. |
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