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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格式: | 電子 Article |
語言: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2023
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2023, 卷: 26, 發布: 5, Pages: 651-665 |
Further subjects: | B
公眾史學
B Applied Ethics B Contractarianism B Social and political philosophy B Collective Memory |
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總結: | 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 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-023-10386-0 |