"A GUESSER IN THIS VALE OF TEARS": ON THE POLITICS OF HISTORY WRITING.

The essay makes three points about historians' responsibilities in the current moment. The first has to do with making sense of the present by bringing the past to bear on it—that is, offering to the current eruptions of politics a history that can help explain what has brought them to this point in...

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Published in:	History & Theory Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 252 - 265
Main Author:	Scott, Joan W.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jun2025
Subjects:	Historiography Ethics Values (Ethics) History Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost