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On Relating History and Political Theory
- Theory & Event
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 19, Issue 1, 2016
- Article
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Political theorists often turn to history to provide context for texts and their production. In this essay, I argue that history can be used to help interrupt our preconceived notions about the way the world works and create a more dynamic form of theorizing about the present. Frantz Fanon’s theory of decolonization provides an example of how individual and collective misperceptions can be corrected through historical consciousness.