by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ All history was palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have
Tag: History
Remembering Hal Colebatch
by Mark English If you grew up in London or New York or any other city with a strong literary and/or cinematic tradition or even
Exhaustion of the Dialectic as End of History
by E. John Winner ___ (1) Every field of human endeavor requires communication, and in communication, language generates ideas in the ordinary sense of that
Knowledge of the Past and Knowledge of the World
by Mark English ___ My intention here is to recapitulate a couple of points arising from recent discussions with a view to clarifying my own
The Past is [Not] What it is or What it Was
by Daniel A. Kaufman __ My title is derived from a comment made by our own Mark English, in a recent discussion on his excellent
History and Knowledge
by Mark English From time to time over the past couple of years, I have expressed reservations about certain forms of history as constituting knowledge.