Deracination :: historicity, Hiroshima, and the tragic imperative /

Through a critique of history--as a reality, a discipline, and a way of writing--Deracination challenges the basic theoretical tenets of both humanism and postmodernism. As a discipline, history is currently undergoing what Heidegger would call a productive "crisis," and a number of thinke...

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Main Author: Davis, Walter A. (Walter Albert), 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2001.
Series:SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Through a critique of history--as a reality, a discipline, and a way of writing--Deracination challenges the basic theoretical tenets of both humanism and postmodernism. As a discipline, history is currently undergoing what Heidegger would call a productive "crisis," and a number of thinkers, including Michel Foucault, Hayden White, Paul Ricoeur, and Stephen Greenblatt, have begun to reexamine the cognitive assumptions and narrative paradigms that inform the discipline. This book radicalizes such developments in order to construct both a new theory of history as well as a new concept of how histories should be written. To make the interrogation concrete, the book focuses on Hiroshima and the ways in which the trauma of that event has been repressed by the discourses that historians have fashioned in order to "explain" what happened on August 6, 1945.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 301 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-292) and index.
ISBN:0585428956
9780585428956
0791448339
9780791448335
9780791491294
0791491293

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