ISBN: 9781997742289 - form as history: when history no longer requires us (18 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Form as History: When History No Longer Requires Us offers a concise yet profound critique of contemporary historical thought. It argues that while modern scholarship has rendered Muslim life increasingly legible as a site of ethics, resistance, and normativity, this progress often masks a deeper, more unsettling possibility: that history itself has learned to proceed without requiring meaning, address, or human obligation. The pamphlet centers on a crucial tension. On one side is the European figure of the Muselmann (from Holocaust testimony), who embodies history's capacity to continue efficiently while ceasing to demand anything from the humans it governs--a state of abandonment, not mere loss. On the other side is the Muslim, positioned in modern discourse as a knowable subject of history. The book argues that emphasizing the latter's agency can function as a displacement, allowing the radical threat of the Muselmann--history's indifference--to be misrecognized as a cultural or religious attribute. Refusing both nostalgia and moralizing, the text examines how forms of life--particularly historical Muslim commercial and legal practices--have sustained obligation and necessity even after political protagonism faded. Its aim is diagnostic: to make visible the quiet threshold where life is managed rather than addressed, and to clarify how historical necessity depends not on power or visibility, but on the persistence of forms that compel the world to answer. …

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Form as History: When History No Longer Requires Us offers a concise and penetrating critique of contemporary historical thought. It argues that while modern scholarship has made Muslim life increasingly legible as a site of ethics, resistance, and normativity, this achievement can obscure a more unsettling condition: that history itself has learned to proceed without requiring meaning, address, or human obligation.A rigorous and unsettling meditation on what it means to live in a world where history continues to function, but no longer feels compelled to answer to human life.The book turns on a central tension. On one side stands the European figure of the Muselmann, drawn from Holocaust testimony, who reveals history's capacity to continue efficiently while no longer demanding anything from the humans it governs. This is not loss, but abandonment. On the other side stands the Muslim, rendered in modern discourse as a knowable and agentive subject of history. The book shows how an emphasis on this agency can function as a displacement, allowing the radical danger exposed by the Muselmann-history's indifference to human address-to be misread as a cultural or religious condition.What becomes of history when it no longer requires struggle, meaning, or even us, yet continues efficiently all the same?Refusing nostalgia and moralizing alike, the book examines how forms of life, particularly within Muslim legal and commercial traditions, have sustained obligation and necessity even after political centrality receded. Its aim is diagnostic rather than prescriptive: to make visible the quiet threshold where life is managed rather than addressed, and to clarify how historical necessity depends not on power or visibility, but on the survival of forms that still compel the world to answer. A critical analysis of contemporary historical thought, exploring how history functions without human obligation, using the figure of the Muselmann and Muslim subject. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …