The False Past A Nietzschean Account of Australian Settler Colonialism

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English | ISBN: 1433182254 | 2022 | 188 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 7 MB
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.
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