Historians Predict the Past: An Academic Urban Legend? October 25, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite, Contemporary
Here is a nice passage from Tony Judt’s Postwar (2005), a wonderful book if you’ve not yet had a chance. Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. Most of what it has to offer is discomforting, even disruptive – which is why it is not always politically […]