• A Reading: "Our Present Concern: Historicism, Teleology, and Contingent Histories of a More Democratic Past"

  • Aug 22 2024
  • Length: 49 mins
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A Reading: "Our Present Concern: Historicism, Teleology, and Contingent Histories of a More Democratic Past"

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  • As scholars have attempted to move away from Eurocentric views over the past few decades and integrate disparate parts of the world into a more democratic narrative of world history, they have increasingly relied on the present as an empirical guidepost. The motives and rationales for this primary concern with the present as a source of historical knowledge are complex and deeply embedded in epistemolo- gical traditions and chronotypes that demand particular views of transitional history and time. This article attempts to explore these views from two critical angles.


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