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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Janice Shell who wrote (7222)4/29/1997 6:39:00 PM
From: Andrew H   of 108807
 
>>There is no "history"; only historicism.<<

Not sure what you mean by the second part, but you explained the first part. Such a statement seems too easy to me. I agree that for the large part there is no such thing as totally objective history, since all witnesses are subject to the interpretive idiosyncracies of both their societies and their own unique egos.

However, there are certain events, trends, etc., that most can agree upon, -- the process of consensus that Alex and I were discussing. We know for example, who wrote the Constitution, that the Nazis were defeated in WW2, etc. Things really did happen although they may be viewed differently by different observers. Certainly history (including our own individual histories) is interpreted as is everything human, but can you therefore deny its existence? Or is this a poststructuralist sort of argument that there is no overarching monolithic history?

Again, would appreciate an explanation of the "only historicism"comment.
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