Ο ναρκισσισμός των μικρών πραγμάτων : περί σύγχυσης, ιστοριογραφίας και άλλων δαιμόνων
Part of : Μνήμων ; Vol.30, 2009, pages 315-336
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The narcissism of small things : on muddle, historiography and other demons
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Βιβλιοκριτικά Δοκίμια
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This essays examines extensively a recent volume edited by Giorgos Antoniouand Nikos Marantzidis under the title I epochi tis syghisis: I dekaetia 1940kai i istoriografia [The age of muddle: the 1940s and historiography] (Athens: Estia, 2008). The focus of the discussion is the analytical, methodologicaland interpretative foundations and scope of the self-styled ‘new/postrevisionistwave’ on the historiography of the 1940s. As part of the academic and publicdiscussion which has been taking place since 2004 on the history and the historiography of the years of Occupation, Resistance and Civil War, the authorof this essay insists that the debate with the ‘new/postrevisionist wave’ becomeseasier to handle and more fruitful when it is based on purely analytical, methodological, interpretative and mainly epistemological criteria rather than political, ideological and even party ones. Building on the former set of criteria, theauthor highlights and cautions against some of the more questionable undertakings of this volume, relating the selection, usage and interpretation of sources;the attempt to import paradigms from other, substantially more advanced andsophisticated historiographical schools and traditions (and especially from theAmerican ‘postrevisionist’ historiography on the origins of the Cold War); andultimately, the shaky epistemological foundations of quite a number of the views publicly expressed in the self-referential exercise which is ambitiously called ‘The Historians’ Debate’ on the 1940s.
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