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History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence - Time and Justice (Hardcover)
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History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence - Time and Justice (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
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Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is
irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as
something 'absent' or 'distant.' Victims of historical injustice,
however, in contrast, often claim that the past got 'stuck' in the
present and that it retains a haunting presence. History, Memory,
and State-Sponsored Violence is centered around the provocative
thesis that the way one deals with historical injustice and the
ethics of history is strongly dependent on the way one conceives of
historical time; that the concept of time traditionally used by
historians is structurally more compatible with the perpetrators'
than the victims' point of view. Demonstrating that the claim of
victims about the continuing presence of the past should be taken
seriously, instead of being treated as merely metaphorical, Berber
Bevernage argues that a genuine understanding of the 'irrevocable'
past demands a radical break with modern historical discourse and
the concept of time. By embedding a profound philosophical
reflection on the themes of historical time and historical
discourse in a concrete series of case studies, this project
transcends the traditional divide between 'empirical'
historiography on the one hand and the so called 'theoretical'
approaches to history on the other. It also breaks with the
conventional 'analytical' philosophy of history that has been
dominant during the last decades, raising a series of
long-neglected 'big questions' about the historical condition -
questions about historical time, the unity of history, and the
ontological status of present and past -programmatically pleading
for a new historical ethics.
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