Post AStGds22eINoYYeyEC by ebrandom@zirk.us
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(DIR) Post #AStGNK3JDTlWXNMUl6 by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-02-21T02:33:00Z
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"Every generation...must inevitably play on the dead whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind." one of many fantastic lines from Carl Becker's classic "Everyman" essay.
(DIR) Post #AStGNKiQkaeuaubKr2 by CitizenWald@historians.social
2023-02-21T02:34:11Z
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@ebrandom Do people still read/teach it? (I do/have)
(DIR) Post #AStGds22eINoYYeyEC by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-02-21T02:37:10Z
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@CitizenWald I do -- I think it's really good! There are some definite limits and problems, but maybe especially for students it's such a clear assertion of a certain point of view. Plus, as I'm reminded whenever I go back to it, his prose is excellent.
(DIR) Post #AStGoHKnQhdHvVOYVc by CitizenWald@historians.social
2023-02-21T02:39:04Z
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@ebrandom Hurray, e are on the same page (one would not expect a piece of that age not to have limits and problems)
(DIR) Post #AStGsbPKjwVFLBZxmy by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-02-21T02:38:43Z
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@CitizenWald Plus I'm interested in Benedetto Croce, and the essay mentions Croce and reads to me as a sort of a translation of Croce for the US.
(DIR) Post #AStGsbzqYBi5AQf7hY by CitizenWald@historians.social
2023-02-21T02:39:50Z
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@ebrandom Interesting! I had not thought of trying to teach it from that angle (though Croce was obviously something closer to a household word back then)
(DIR) Post #AStHY1INOWnZVG4fTM by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-02-21T02:47:19Z
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@CitizenWald The Croce is just a little treat for me -- there's too much backstory there for the undergrads under normal conditions. I don't know in detail about Croce's reception among US historians, but my sense is that he would surely be very well known by the early 1930s -- I wonder how the politics of that citation looked at that moment?