History's unresolving tensions: reality and implications.
A prominent but often neglected feature of historical representation is the presence within it of 'tensions' of a sort that cannot be resolved within the limits of historical representation itself. This unresolvability is most readily seen when historians aim to be cognitively responsible in their w...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 279 - 304 |
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