From Fathers of War-Proof: Narrative, Dasein, and the Inauthenticity of Nationalist Mytho-History

• In Event: Theorizing Modernity

Brief Overview

This paper will draw upon discussions of temporality in Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of being in order to argue that nationalist historical narratives represents an inauthentic articulation of the collective historical being of a people.

Author

• Marcus Charlesworth, University of Ottawa