In this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has
played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who claim to
act in its name-"in the name of history." Scott investigates three
different instances in which repudiation of the past was conceived
as a way to a better future: the International Military Tribunal at
Nuremberg in 1946, the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission in 1996, and the ongoing movement for reparations for
slavery in the United States. Scott shows how in these cases
history was not only used to explain the past but to produce a
particular future. Yet both past and future were subject to the
political realities of their time and defined in terms of moral
absolutes, often leading to deep contradictions. These three
instances demonstrate that history is not an impartial truth,
rather its very meaning is constructed by those who act in its
name.
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