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- Title
Distance and Historical Representation.
- Authors
Phillips, Mark Salber
- Abstract
Historians recognize that some degree of temporal distance is a constitutive feature of all forms of historical representation. Without a measure of distance, in other words, there can be no such thing as an historical account. When we press on this common sense view of distance, however, it becomes clear that our sense of engagement and detachment in relation to the past involves much more than temporality alone; form, affect, ideology, and cognition are all important to the ways in which the past is perceived and described. When these additional dimensions are taken into account, distance emerges as a central axis of historiograpical analysis – one with important implications for understanding both the variety of present practice and the long history of historical thought.
- Subjects
HISTORY; HISTORIOGRAPHY; SUBJECTIVITY in historiography; DISTANCES; HISTORIANS; COGNITION
- Publication
History Workshop Journal, 2004, Vol 57, Issue 1, p123
- ISSN
1363-3554
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hwj/57.1.123