{"product_id":"the-militant-historian-9781350381056","title":"The Militant Historian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the first wide-ranging analysis of Alain Badiou's use, development and transformation of the concept of history.\u003c\/b\u003e Despite the wealth of perspectives now available on how social and cultural practices take shape, historicism still appears to be the most dominant. \u003ci\u003eThe Militant Historian\u003c\/i\u003e examines this primacy and reveals how Badiou's work offers a radical riposte.\u003cbr\u003eExploring key texts in Badiou's oeuvre and how his philosophical ideas disrupt dominant conceptions of history and the role of the historian, Kerry William Purcell addresses how these ideas could transform our approaches to the historical and what it means to do history' as a meaningful endeavour. Adopting a chronological approach to Badiou's work, each chapter explores specific conceptual developments in his writing and how they lend themselves to a reconsideration of the subject who speaks history. From these new and disruptive modes of doing emerges the figure of the militant historian  a role with\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187305963863,"sku":"9781350381056","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-militant-historian-9781350381056","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}