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Sto caricando le informazioni... Whig Interpretation of History (originale 1931; edizione 1965)di H Butterfield (Autore)
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It is not as easy to understand the past as many who have written it would have us believe. The historians who look at it from the Protestant, progressive, "19th Century gentleman" viewpoint are defined by Professor Butterfield as "the Whig historians." The Whig historian studies the past with reference to the present. He looks for agency in history. And, in his search for origins and causes, he can easily select those facts that give support to his thesis and thus eliminate other facts equally important to the total picture. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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What he proposes instead is that many of the major historical events were carried out for very different purposes, personal and/or political, that have nothing to do with the goals that we retrospectively assign to the main actors. One of the main examples he uses is the Reformation, which he discusses convincingly.
He suggests that the role of historians should be, before describing events, to try to understand the actions of historical figures in the context of their real lives, motivating factors, worldviews, and past societies, including the politics and religions of the time - instead of trying to explain their actions from the perspective of here and now.
A convincing and concise attack on the faults of major historians past, and a lesson to be learnt for the historians of the future. ( )