Desire and Fate
The supplanting in the historical sciences, but also increasingly across the academic humanities (and even to some extent in the STEM fields) of Ranke’s view that history is ‘truth as it happened,’ by what might be called the Brothers Grimm view, which is that history is a recollection of a past by a community,* is the real significance of so-called the…
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