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“But for the historian, for whom the past is dead and irreproachable, the past is feminine. He loves it as a mistress of whom he never tired and whom he never expects to talk sense.” (Michael Oakeshott, 1955)
The past is like a sexy, stupid, dead woman? No, I don’t think that’s true.
— Jan 05, 2026 11:06PM
The past is like a sexy, stupid, dead woman? No, I don’t think that’s true.
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Historians: Discussing the impact language has in the construction of history and whether that means you can ever reach the truth of an event.
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“Through this remarkable flurry of metaphors, Butterfield’s text reveals a curious hatred of the past; there is a frustration and despair that the historian may ever know the truth about it.”
— Jan 04, 2026 07:31PM
