December 2011
17 posts
(Source: openbiz)
It was time to move beyond the stale debate between relativism and realism, between the ‘post-modernists’ and their critics, and to explore in unbiased ways the ethical, existential, and institutional conditions for, and possibilities of, historical research, historical narratives, and the shaping of historical memory.
The writing of history, the shaping of historical consciousness, and the very experience of time are never just matters of the past but always, ultimately, signs of a future in the making.