THE LOST ATLANTIS OF OBJECTIVITY: THE REVISIONIST STRUGGLES BETWEEN THE ACADEMIC AND PUBLIC SPHERES¹

Abstract

This article examines the theoretical and methodological implications of the revisionist debates. It focuses on the political, academic, and moral dimensions of the process of rewriting history and its interrelation with the public sphere. The article examines the recent debate in greece and compares it with case studies of germany, Spain, Israel, the Soviet Union, and Ireland. It comments on the common elements of these cases and proposes a basic typology of the revisionist debates in terms of similarities and differences. It categorizes the revisionist endeavors into three types: the successful, the failed, and the bewildered.

The first documents of emancipated African American management

“…Specifically, we want to “normalize” management's foundation with the hope that Montgomery's example of emancipated African American management practice will become meaningfully reenacted and recreated in management's traditions and reconstructed in the collective memory of management historians. As our reanimation of the past through our historical analysis of Montgomery's letters did not result from the “presence of history” but rather from the “absence of history” relative to African American management, we hope that it will promote new ways of viewing management's past in terms of not only on “what happened in the past” but, more critically, also in terms of “how it is transferred and narrated in the present” (Antoniou, 2007, p. 102).…”

Commemorating Chandler through the lens of his revisionists

“…Typically, revisionist management historians promote new ways of viewing the past – the ways that question the established orthodox perspectives. These new ways focus not only on “what happened in the past” but also “how it is transferred and narrated in the present” (Antoniou, 2007, p. 102).…”