Historiographic Populist Emotivism
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009453615.015" target="_blank" >10.1017/9781009453615.015</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Historiographic Populist Emotivism
Original language description
It would be a stretch to claim to write about populist philosophies or theories of history because populism does not possess the kind of reflective systematic coherence that distinguishes philosophical theories. Still, it is possible to identify, I argue, a distinct populist attitude to historiography that can be derived from a political theory of populism. This attitude to historiography is expressed by the rhetoric, speeches, and speech acts such as tweets of populists from different parts of the world and different ends of the political spectrum.*There is a great, indeed ever-increasing, variety of theories of populism. Even within the confines of this volume, no single theory or meaning of populism is accepted by all. I have advocated a theory of populism as the politics of the passions (Tucker 2020). Accordingly, I argue that populism approaches historiography as a narrative expression of the passions projected on the past. This passionate-emotive attitude to historiography generates corresponding values that judge competing historiographies according to their passionate intensity that expresses ‘authenticity’. Finally, I consider the more recent populist use of perspectivism, constructivism, and dialectics to confuse and silence its potential critics.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Claiming the People's Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN
9781009453615
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
248-266
Number of pages of the book
343
Publisher name
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge
UT code for WoS chapter
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