The End of Human Rights History

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3198340
AutoresSamuel Moyn (0000-0001-5152-956X, Harvard University Press, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen233
Número1
Páginas307-322
Fecha de publicación2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPast & Present (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pastj/gtw038
OpenAlexW2516621954
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

The sociology of intellectual argument, for all of its strides forward in the intervening century, has not come far since Arthur Schopenhauer’s glum observation that truth most often enjoys ‘only a short victory celebration between the two long periods of time when it is condemned as paradoxical or disparaged as trivial’.1 Discovered since is that the truth is hostage not just to banalization but also to specialization: the hectic journey from paradox to disparagement that Schopenhauer portrayed occurs as new fields run through a familiar dynamic of excitement and exhaustion, before new generations of themes and topics seize their place. As a field normalizes, all the available moves within it are sooner or later made. When the last square is occupied, it is usually a sign that the game is about to complete its transit from vital to moribund. A historiography has only a short victory celebration between two long periods of time when it is unimaginable for scholars to pursue it in the first place and it is marginalized for lacking opportunities to innovate.

Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Historiography · Political science · Politics · Sign (mathematics) · Sociology · Victory · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty