Signing on: A Contractarian Understanding of How Public History is Used for Civic Inclusion
What makes public history more than just another hill to fight over in culture war politics? In this paper I propose a novel way of understanding the political significance of how public history creates and shapes identities: a contractarian one. I argue that public history can be sensibly understoo...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2023
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Έτος: 2023, Τόμος: 26, Τεύχος: 5, Σελίδες: 651-665 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Δημόσια ιστορία
B Applied Ethics B Contractarianism B Social and political philosophy B Collective Memory |
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| Σύνοψη: | What makes public history more than just another hill to fight over in culture war politics? In this paper I propose a novel way of understanding the political significance of how public history creates and shapes identities: a contractarian one. I argue that public history can be sensibly understood as representing groups as a society's contracting parties. One particular value of the contractarian approach is that it helps to elucidate the phenomenon of "signing on," where a marginalized or oppressed group is offered membership in a society without the social order being meaningfully changed. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-023-10386-0 |