This book argues that history may, by definition, be an imperialist science or a quintessentially Western form ofdiscourse. 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 whichit cannot exist. It is also the only science that can study itself. The author argues that history has a relationshipwith one of the so-called civilizations of the world that ...
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This book argues that history may, by definition, be an imperialist science or a quintessentially Western form ofdiscourse. 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 whichit cannot exist. It is also the only science that can study itself. The author argues that history has a relationshipwith one of the so-called civilizations of the world that borders on the incestuous. That civilization is WesternCivilization: history has both emerged from it and helped to shape it in such a way that they are inextricably linked.History, with its Western conceptual framework, has become a defining part of Western Civilization to the extent thatthe West cannot even conceive of itself being without history. But what happens when history is removed fromits natural habitat? Can it be done, and has it been done, other than
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