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Twilight of History (Hardcover)
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On its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand's book The Invention of the
Jewish People met with a storm of controversy. His demystifying
approach to nationalist and Zionist historiography provoked much
criticism from other professional historians, as well as praise.
The furore gave him a privileged position to consider his academic
discipline, which he reflects on here in Twilight of History.
Drawing on four decades in the field, Sand takes a wider view and
interrogates the study of history, whose origin lay in the need for
a national ideology. Over the last few decades, traditional history
has begun to fragment, yet only to give rise to a new role for
historians as priests of official memory. Working in Israel has
sharpened Sand's perspective, since the role of history as national
myth is particularly salient in a country where the Bible is
treated as a source of historical fact. He asks such questions as:
Is every historical narrative ideologically marked? Do political
requirements and state power weigh down inordinately on historical
research and teaching? And, in such conditions, can there be a
morally neutral and "scientific" truth? Despite his trenchant
criticism of academic history, Sand would still like to believe
that the past can be understood without myth, and finds reasons for
hope in the work of Max Weber and Georges Sorel.
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