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Re:Why history is always political by gsf_emergency on Saturday December 28, 2024 @03:59AM (#42529615)
>Pocock’s claim is that history writing is, to some extent, political in itself.

Future historiographers might note a similar relationship between the papers of computer scientists and the economy..

In particular:

>history is the most powerful element in the construction and destruction of self-knowledge of political societies

I wish the reviewer had attended to the novel thing that Pocock had pointed out about the age-old tension between collectivism and humanism, though..

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