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Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative

Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative

by Davis, Walter A
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Attempts to comprehend the traumatic significance of Hiroshima in order to construct a new theory of history.

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.

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Pub dateFeb 15, 2001
ISBN-100791448347
ISBN-139780791448342
LanguageEnglish
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