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Twilight of History

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Twilight of History

SKU: 9781786630223 Category: Product ID: 145297

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Title: Twilight of History
Author: SAND SHLOMO
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 24/05/2017
Imprint: VERSO
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active

Drawing on his four decades as a professional historian, Shlomo Sand interrogates the academic discipline of history, whose origin lay in the need for a national ideology. In the last few decades, traditional history has begun to fragment, yet only to give rise to a new role of 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 history book. 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 sees pointers for this in the work of Weber and Sorel.

ISBN: 9781786630223
Pages: 304