Date of Award
8-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
Committee Member
Michael Meng, Committee Chair
Committee Member
David Coombs
Committee Member
Stephanie Barczewski
Abstract
By piggybacking on the critiques of the historical discipline provided by Leo Tolstoy in his momentous novel, War and Peace, I assert that history may undergo a reconstruction. By ridding the historical discipline of the self-interest that has atrophied its ability to make a significant, positive impact on the world, and installing a metaphysics devoted to equality, freedom, and universality, I believe that it may be revitalized as a profession. I call for a new history, one built in the Hegelian-Marxist tradition, which will lead humanity into a future defined by love and self-sacrifice. It is a history explicitly opposed to neutrality; love is not neutral.
Recommended Citation
Thrift, Daniel John, "War and Peace: Possibilities for a New History" (2019). All Theses. 3171.
https://open.clemson.edu/all_theses/3171