Rewriting Reality The Political Battle Over Historical Truth And Democracy
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| Author | : Justin Rivera |
| Publisher | : Raghava Appikatla |
| Total Pages | : 110 |
| Release | : 2024-10-25 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
In an era of increasing polarization and misinformation, understanding how history is rewritten and manipulated has become crucial. This book delves into the political battles surrounding historical truth, examining the forces that shape our understanding of the past and their impact on our present and future. You'll discover how political agendas, ideological biases, and economic interests influence the way history is taught, interpreted, and consumed. The book explores the strategies employed by different groups to control narratives, revise accounts, and silence dissenting voices. From the rewriting of textbooks to the manipulation of media narratives, you'll gain insights into the complex interplay between power, history, and the construction of truth. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamics of political discourse, the role of history in shaping societies, and the ongoing struggle for historical accuracy. It offers a critical analysis of the challenges facing democracy in an age of manufactured realities, equipping you with the knowledge and tools to navigate the complexities of historical interpretation and discern the truth from the fabricated.
| Author | : Marc James Léger |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2024-06-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1040035817 |
Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists. This guide to the recent wave of "woke" culture wars provides a radical class analysis and critique of the most popular academic trends around diversity and inclusion: radical democracy, intersectionality, privilege theory, critical race theory and decoloniality. The book further explains the complexity of today’s cultural conflicts by examining how these issues are viewed across the political spectrum, including populist and postmodern perspectives. Exploring historical, cultural, political and economic developments since the postwar era, this follow- up to Identity Trumps Socialism provides the reader with everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the campus wars that have gone mainstream.
| Author | : Jarrett Stepman |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2019-10-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1621579077 |
The War on Our History Confederate memorials toppled . . . Columbus statues attacked with red paint. They started with slave-owning Confederate generals, but they’re not stopping there. The vandals are only pretending to care about the character of particular American heroes. In reality, they hate what those heroes represent: the truths asserted in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Constitution. And they are bent on taking America down and replacing our free society with a socialist utopia. All that stands in their way is Americans’ reverence for our history of freedom. Which is why that history simply has to go. Now, Jarrett Stepman, editor at The Daily Signal and host of Right Side of History, exposes the true aims of the war on our history: The war on America: World history is full of conquests and suffering indigenous peoples. Why target Christopher Columbus? What they really want to tear down is America. The war on Thanksgiving: World history is full of colonists. Why target the Pilgrims? What they really want to tear down is American freedom and prosperity. The war on the Founding: World history is full of slavery. Why target Thomas Jefferson? What they really want to tear down are the rights endowed by our Creator. The war on the common man: World history is full of victorious generals and populist politicians. Why target Andrew Jackson? What they really want to tear down is democracy. The war on the South: World history is full of civil strife. Why target Confederate heroes like Robert E. Lee? What they really want to tear down is respect for America’s past and the reconciliation that renewed our Union. The war on patriotism: World history is full of national pride. Why target Teddy Roosevelt? What they really want to tear down is the idea of American greatness. The war on the American century: World history is full of bloody wars. What they really want to tear down is America’s defeat of totalitarianism. If America is to survive this assault, we must rally to the defense of our illustrious history. The War on History is the battle plan.
| Author | : Sue Golding |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 1992-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780802076748 |
An in-depth study of Antonio Gramsci's prison notebooks (Quaderni del carcere) and his specific contributions to radical democratic theory. The book encompasses English, Italian, and French debates on the subject as well as political and philosophical discussions concerning the limitations of liberal and socialist democratic theory.
| Author | : Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780754649724 |
Illuminating and comprehensive, this excellent volume addresses the problematic relationship between democratic institutions and the current critique of enlightenment and modernity. It focuses on the terms and conditions under which it would be possible to prevent events such as 9/11 or the genocide in Darfur in the future.
| Author | : Mark Tushnet |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 777 |
| Release | : 2023-11-03 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1839101644 |
This Research Handbook deals with the politics of constitutional law around the world, using both comparative and political analysis, delivering global treatment of the politics of constitutional law across issues, regions and legal systems. Offering an innovative, critical approach to an array of key concepts and topics, this book will be a key resource for legal scholars and political science scholars. Students with interests in law and politics, constitutions, legal theory and public policy will also find this a beneficial companion.
| Author | : Michiko Kakutani |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2019-08-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0525574832 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the beliefs that best confirm our biases. How did truth become an endangered species in contemporary America? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to this gathering storm. In social media and literature, television, academia, and politics, Kakutani identifies the trends—originating on both the right and the left—that have combined to elevate subjectivity over factuality, science, and common values. And she returns us to the words of the great critics of authoritarianism, writers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, whose work is newly and eerily relevant. With remarkable erudition and insight, Kakutani offers a provocative diagnosis of our current condition and points toward a new path for our truth-challenged times.
| Author | : George Orwell |
| Publisher | : Renard Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 15 |
| Release | : 2021-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1913724263 |
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
| Author | : David Dwan |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2018-10-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0191082015 |
George Orwell is watching you and you're watching him. Britain pays its respects in the form of the Orwell Prize, the Orwell Lecture, and, more recently, Orwell Day. A statue of Orwell now stands outside Broadcasting House in London and he continues to tower over broadsheet journalism. His ghost is repeatedly summoned in the houses of Parliament and in schools across Britain. In Europe and the US, citizens confront the perennial question: "What would Orwell say?" Orwell is part of the political vocabulary of our times, yet partly due to this popularity, what he stands for remains opaque. His writing confirms deep and widely shared intuitions about political justice, but much of its enduring fascination derives from the fact that these intuitions don't quite add up. David Dwan accounts for these inconsistencies by exploring the broader moral conflict at the centre of Orwell's work and the troubled idealism it yields. Examining the whole sweep of Orwell's writings, this book shows how literature can be a rich source of political wisdom.
| Author | : Kate C. Langdon |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2019-07-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030205797 |
This book studies the cultural, societal, and ideological factors absent from popular discourse on Vladimir Putin’s Russia, contesting the misleading mainstream assumption that Putin is the all-powerful sovereign of Russia. In carefully examining the ideological underpinnings of Putinism—its tsarist and Soviet elements, its intellectual origins, its culturally reproductive nature, and its imperialist foreign policy—the authors reveal that an indoctrinating ideology and a willing population are simultaneously the most crucial yet overlooked keys to analyzing Putin’s totalitarian democracy. Because Putinism is part of a global wave of extreme political movements, the book also reaffirms the need to understand—but not accept—how and why nation-states and masses turn to nationalism, authoritarianism, or totalitarianism in modern times.
