On page 117, in the essay entitled “Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination,” we read the following: But if my hypothesis is correct, there can be no such thing as a non-relativistic representation of historical reality, inasmuch as every account of the past is mediated by the language-mode in which the historian casts his original description of the historical field prior to any analysis, explanation, or interpretation he may offer of it. We read this classic Hayden White piece (originally […]
Tag: Sigmund Freud
Small Differences
Season 4 episode 15 of the TV show Futurama, entitled “The Farnsworth Parabox,” has a great illustration of a principle that Sigmund Freud called the narcissism of minor differences. […]
Normalizing Surveillance By Critiquing It
So read the headline on The Washington Post‘s style blog — the article argued as follows: Ok. I admit to finding this whole elf on the shelf thing kind’a odd…. […]