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Imprisoned by History - Aspects of Historicized Life (Paperback)
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Imprisoned by History - Aspects of Historicized Life (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
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Imprisoned by History: Aspects of Historicized Life offers a
controversial analysis, grounded both in philosophical argument and
empirical evidence, of what history does in contemporary culture.
It endorses and extends the argument that contemporary society is,
in historical terms, already historicized, shaped by history - and
thus history loses sight of the world, seeing it only as a
reflection of its own self-image. By focusing on history as a way
of thinking about the world, as a thought-style, this volume
delivers a major, decisive, thought-provoking critique of a crucial
aspect contemporary culture and the public sphere. By illustrating
the ways in which history enforces socially coercive attitudes and
forms of behaviour, Martin Davies argues that history is therefore
in itself ideological and exists as an instrument of political
power. Contending that this ideological function is the "normal"
function of professional academic history, he repudiates entirely
the conventional view that only biased or "bad" history is
ideological. By finding history projecting onto the world and
getting reflected back at it the exacting, history-focused thinking
and behaviour on which the discipline and the subject rely, he
concludes that history's very "normality" and "objectivity" are
inherently compromised and that history works only in terms of its
own self-interest.
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