The false past : a Nietzschean account of Australian settler colonialism / R. B. E. Price.
"Provocative and disconcerting, The False Past confronts what many generations hold near and dear about their memorials. What if everything we know about history is wrong? What if history is driven by vanity and unexamined moral claims? What if fabrication and corruption are so integral to hist...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "Provocative and disconcerting, The False Past confronts what many generations hold near and dear about their memorials. What if everything we know about history is wrong? What if history is driven by vanity and unexamined moral claims? What if fabrication and corruption are so integral to history that it must be written anew? These questions, posed by Nietzsche, are answered in this exciting new work. The False Past takes a disturbing escapade through Australia's colonial past. Using a Nietzschean evaluation of how the eternal recurrence of suffering worked in practice, it announces a fresh vision for frontier history. And in the finest Nietzschean tradition, Price reveals the uncaring absurdity and inconsistency of settlers in the pioneer past as their supreme moral failing. The False Past assesses claims to colonial nobility, too. Who were the souls aiming beyond humanity who rose up Down Under? Was its Übermensch a dark and moody genius with a taste for conquest, a supreme talent in pastoral profiteering or a cunning bushranger out on a mission? Awkward and confronting, bold and experimental, this book often says the unsayable. The False Past lays siege to nostalgia, piety, vanity and nihilism to explain how unfounded exceptionalism has come to rule our lives. A revisionist assault on settled history, The False Past promises to spark controversy among history readers for many years to come"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 177 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1433182262 9781433182266 |