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The ambiguities of history

Paperback • 2005 • English • 1. edition

The ambiguities of history: the problem of ethnocentrism in the writing of history

By Finn Fuglestad

Part 8 of the series Tid og tanke

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About the book

This book argues that history may, by definition, be an imperialist science or a quintessentially Western form of discourse. Finn Fuglestad thinks there is something profoundly ambiguous about the science or academic discipline we call history. It is the only science that is the product of its own object of study, the past, an object outside of which it cannot exist. It is also the only science that can study itself. The author argues that history has a relationship with one of the so-called civ...Show more

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ISBN

9788274772045

Publisher

Unipub forlag

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The ambiguities of history

Format

Paperback

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