Even the concepts of history and identity require redefinition for the Westerner trying to understand the contemporary Middle East.
Resisting the imposition of Western concepts of history, land, nation, society, and narrative, many of these writers explored their oral traditions, myths, and cultural practices.
I began to think, "What does this language tell us about our concepts of history?" We often describe history as progress more power, more money, and even, for those with real imagination, more social progress.
Alexander Nagel, 44, is best known for an award-winning book on Michelangelo, and for research into Renaissance concepts of history that he conducted during a two-year stint as Andrew Mellon Professor at the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Art.
Instead of an object-centric view of the world, the advent of the World Wide Web enables curators to put their collections back into context, and so to create an idea-centric universe of human understanding.For better and for worse, curatorial categories run deep through our concepts of history.
Furthermore, the concepts of history, the historicity of the life-world, are made possible by the inner historicity of every human being living in it.
In his search for a non-Hegelian, non-developmentalist conception of history as a whole, in 'On the Concept of History' Benjamin figured now-time, quasi-messianically, alternatively as a 'model' of messianic time and as "shot through with splinters of messianic time".
We suggest beginning with the concept of history as stories, and with students' own knowledge and impressions.
The shift is helping to redefine the concept of history, as people suddenly have the tools and the desire to record the lives of almost everybody.
His concept of history left no room for the idea that the Renaissance or any other period was characterized by general progress over the preceding epoch.
