Lessons of History: An Impossible Equation? Towards New Perspectives on Historical Learning

Bidragets översatta titel : Historiska lärdomar: en omöjlig ekvation?

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Lessons of history are two-sided cultural products. They serve as active instruments of temporal orientation in a society in which historical trajectories seem obsolete and the future open, but they are also passively framed within historical cultures that often have prefigured them. Thus, lessons are seldom arbitrarily constructed. while lessons of history for many centuries were highly esteemed as guides to the future from the viewpoint of a practical past, and still are among economists, politicians and social scientists, few professional historians have trust in lessons. The distrust is explained from the lessons’ lack of congruence with traditional professional standards, but also from a frequent use of historical lessons for ideological and political purposes. The purpose of this essay is partly to discuss the theoretical assumptions behind lessons of history, partly to argue in favour of a more constructive use of lessons that can meet reasonable scholarly requirements.
Bidragets översatta titel Historiska lärdomar: en omöjlig ekvation?
Originalspråkengelska
Sidor351-382
Antal sidor31
Volym17
Nummer2020
SpecialistpublikationThe Historical Review / La Revue Historique
FörlagSection of Neohellenic Research of the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation
DOI
StatusPublished - 2021 maj 26

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  • Historia
  • Didaktik

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