Words in Time : A Plea for Historical Re-thinking.
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Words in Time : A Plea for Historical Re-thinking. |
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Main author: | Benigno, Francesco. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Writing history at a time of memory
- 1 The distancing of the modern
- 2 The challenge of memory
- 3 Traditional history vs memorial history?
- 4 Conclusion: a plea for critical history
- Notes
- PART I: Rethinking Early Modern Europe
- 1. Violence
- 1 Rites of violence?
- 2 Different from us
- 3 Losing one's head
- 4 Conclusions: violence as judgement
- Notes
- 2. Popular culture
- 1 The standard historiographical understanding of popular culture
- 2 A thousand Menocchios
- 3 The hermeneutical turn
- 4 Folklore and reflexive anthropology
- 5 Inventing the people
- 6 Conclusions: rethinking the concept of popular
- Notes
- 3. Public opinion
- 1 Critique as the matrix of the crisis
- 2 A utopia of communication
- 3 A deformed ancien régime
- 4 Possible pluralisms
- 5 Conclusions: counterposed rhetorics
- Notes
- 4. Revolutions
- 1 After the revisionisms
- 2 The mother of all revolutions
- 3 Revolutions before 'the Revolution'
- 4 Conclusions: revolutions and public memory
- Notes
- PART II: Rethinking Modernity
- 5. Identity
- 1 There once was a thing called class
- 2 Between radical individualism and representations
- 3 The discovery of identity
- 4 New types of subjectivity
- 5 The modernity we have lost
- 6 The liquified world
- 7 Simul stabunt, simul cadent: nation, class and identitary divisions
- 8 Conclusions: coming to terms with lost innocence
- Notes
- 6. Power
- 1 The time of Grand Theories
- 2 The antipositivist reaction
- 3 Foucault
- 4 Power in social organizations
- 5 Power, institutions, identity
- 6 Conclusions: the communicative dimension of power
- Notes
- 7. Generations
- 1 Wave on wave
- 2 Grounding the concept of generation.
- 3 Historians and the notion of generation
- 4 Generational memory and constructing an event
- 5 Conclusions: the generation call
- Notes
- 8. Terrorism
- 1 Improbable definitions and unbelievable genealogies
- 2 Revolutionary terrorism
- 3 Insurgency and counter-insurgency
- 4 The evil scourge
- 5 Conclusion: terrorism on the stage
- Notes
- Index.