The Use of History in Political Debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4496532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karl-Georg Faber (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 36 |
| Publication date | 1978-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2504709 |
| OpenAlex | W2324377201 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
As a rule, it the writers of history who insist on calling history to consciousness and applying its lessons to the present, to life. However reasonable this impulse may seem in terms of historians' specialized knowledge, it almost inevitably produces and this understandable given the interests of this group statements on how history can or should be applied to the present. In these statements, historical research into the past and the insights gained through that research are seen as making a contribution that at least potentially conducive to the survival of society and therefore valuable. A statement to the effect that history, unlike any other discipline, facilitates understanding of, and an orientation in, the historically determined and therefore is a crucial element in the intellectual make-up of any culture usually accompanied by the qualification that history cannot provide formulas for acting in the present or planning for the future.' Statements like this, which represent history as an aid to self-understanding but which also caution against too direct an application of historical knowledge to the present, are not new, however often they may have come to the fore in debates on educational policy during the seventies. If we examine statements made by representatives of historicism as far back as the early nineteenth century, we will find that a trust in the course of history or, in some cases, a consciousness of history as a series of crises generally linked with verbal disclaimers that history can provide us with
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| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |