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On the Judgment of History (Paperback)
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On the Judgment of History (Paperback)
Series: Ruth Benedict Book Series
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Loot Price R554
Discovery Miles 5 540
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In the face of conflict and despair, we often console ourselves by
saying that history will be the judge. Today's oppressors may
escape being held responsible for their crimes, but the future will
condemn them. Those who stand up for progressive values are on the
right side of history. As ideas once condemned to the dustbin of
history-white supremacy, hypernationalism, even fascism-return to
the world, threatening democratic institutions and values, can we
still hold out hope that history will render its verdict? Joan
Wallach Scott critically examines the belief that history will
redeem us, revealing the implicit politics of appeals to the
judgment of history. She argues that the notion of a linear,
ever-improving direction of history hides the persistence of power
structures and hinders the pursuit of alternative futures. This
vision of necessary progress perpetuates the assumption that the
nation-state is the culmination of history and the ultimate source
for rectifying injustice. Scott considers the Nuremberg Tribunal
and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which
claimed to carry out history's judgment on Nazism and apartheid,
and contrasts them with the movement for reparations for slavery in
the United States. Advocates for reparations call into question a
national history that has long ignored enslavement and its racist
legacies. Only by this kind of critical questioning of the place of
the nation-state as the final source of history's judgment, this
book shows, can we open up room for radically different conceptions
of justice.
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