RT Book
T1 On the judgment of history
T2 Ruth Benedict book series
A1 Scott, Joan Wallach 1941-
LA English
PP New York
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1698082010
AB "After watching the 2017 Charlottesville riots, Joan Wallach Scott began thinking about our standard views of history as progressive, and the culmination of progress in the Western European nation-state since the 18th century. The return of once-discredited ideas-Nazism, white supremacy, nationalism-poses serious threats to democratic institutions and values, and upends our commonly-used adages about "the judgment of history" or being "on the right side of history." The three chapters examine the Nuremberg Tribunal, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the movement for reparations for slavery in the U.S. Scott examines how our association of these events with the expectation that history moves in an ever-improving linear direction. Instead, Scott forces us to reassess the history of these cases, not as an appeal to how history will ultimately judge these events, but rather as a need to perpetuate the nation-state and its claims to morality"--
NO Beiträge zum Teil bereits veröffentlicht in: "In the name of history" by Joan Wallach Scott (2019)
CN D16.9
SN 9780231196949
SN 9780231196956
K1 South Africa : Truth and Reconciliation Commission : History
K1 Historiography
K1 Nationalism : History
K1 Racism : History
K1 Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 : History
K1 History : Philosophy
K1 Reparations for historical injustices : United States : History