On the judgment of history
"After watching the 2017 Charlottesville riots, Joan Wallach Scott began thinking about our standard views of history as progressive, and the culmination of progress in the Western European nation-state since the 18th century. The return of once-discredited ideas-Nazism, white supremacy, nation...
| Subtitles: | In the name of history |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Ruth Benedict book series
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
/ Africa, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
/ USA
/ Slave
/ Reparation
/ Philosophy of history
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| Further subjects: | B
Historiography
B South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission History B Nationalism History B Reparations for historical injustices (United States) History B Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 History B Racism History B History Philosophy |
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| Summary: | "After watching the 2017 Charlottesville riots, Joan Wallach Scott began thinking about our standard views of history as progressive, and the culmination of progress in the Western European nation-state since the 18th century. The return of once-discredited ideas-Nazism, white supremacy, nationalism-poses serious threats to democratic institutions and values, and upends our commonly-used adages about "the judgment of history" or being "on the right side of history." The three chapters examine the Nuremberg Tribunal, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the movement for reparations for slavery in the U.S. Scott examines how our association of these events with the expectation that history moves in an ever-improving linear direction. Instead, Scott forces us to reassess the history of these cases, not as an appeal to how history will ultimately judge these events, but rather as a need to perpetuate the nation-state and its claims to morality"-- |
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| Item Description: | Beiträge zum Teil bereits veröffentlicht in: "In the name of history" by Joan Wallach Scott (2019) |
| ISBN: | 0231196946 |