UID:
almahu_9949366685102882
Format:
1 online resource (188 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9781433182266
Content:
Provocative and disconcerting, The False Past confronts what many generations hold near and dear about their memorials. What if everything we know about colonial 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 failing because it produces contemporary trauma. The False Past evaluates 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, an Indigenous exemplar, 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 debate among readers for many years to come.
Note:
Acknowledgements - Openings - Falsity, Trauma and Guilt - Hankering for a Coast - Speaking for the Palawa - Wild Ducks and Dispersals - The Limits of Nostalgia - Claims Beyond Humanity - Selecting Fictional Heroes - Remembering the Wheeler-Dealer - The Tiffs - How to See Yourself - Vanity - Prospectus - Rise above It - Closings - Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433182259
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.peterlang.com/search?searchstring=9781433182266
