The Historiographic Perversion - Hardcover

Nichanian, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231149085 ISBN 13: 9780231149082

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2009

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Críticas:

I have no doubt Marc Nichanian's book will gain a wide, even popular, audience. It is a philosophical book, but it also constitutes a very personal, emotional plea for the pursuit of thinking on questions that are ever more crucial. -- Avital Ronell, professor of German, comparative literature, and English, New York University A powerful and personal book, it displays, through its evocative brilliance and discipline of logic, Nichanian's long-lasting engagement with the significance and context of the Armenian genocide. -- Piotr A. Cieplak Times Higher Education

Reseña del editor:

Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history in making this and other genocides endure as contentious events. Nichanian's book argues that both law and history fail to contend with the very nature of events for which there is no archive (no documents, no witnesses). Both history and law fail to address the modern reality that events can be--and are now being--perpetrated that depend upon the destruction of the archive, turning monstrous deeds into nonevents. Genocide, this book makes us see, is in one sense the destruction of the archive. It relies on the historiographic perversion.

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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0231149085
• ISBN 13: 9780231149082
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216