Clio's Bastards or, the wrecking of history and the perversion of our historical consciousness
Victoria BC: Friesen Press, 2016 vii+242 pp.
Victoria BC: Friesen Press, 2016 vii+242 pp.
Synopsis: In his provocative and path-breaking second book Clio's Bastards, Curtis R. McManus confronts the philosophies that animate those academic historians who have turned the discipline of history into an ideological weapon in the battle for "social justice." McManus argues that these sociological ideas are recrudescent expressions of the twin philosophies of destructive Sophistry and nihilistic Cynicism, both of which helped to ruin and foul ancient Athens, the intellectual and spiritual home of the West. As an alternative to mechanistic sociological thought, McManus outlines a way of seeing and understanding the past that returns us to our culture's rich tradition of humanism rooted in classical philosophy.
