Sentence examples for historical preoccupation from inspiring English sources
Blauvelt describes de Certeau as shifting our attention to "acts of consumption, or use", away from the historical preoccupation with the means of production, but it is interesting to consider objects that exhibit these co-opting characteristics both in use AND the means of production, etc. in assembly or manufacture.
Relatedly, this line of thought may help explain the historical preoccupation with whether responsibility for an action requires the ability to have done otherwise.
Chua's larger historical preoccupations, as she suggests, arise from her own biography.
The present article examines a selection of Wordsworth's sonnets from this period, and relates their historical preoccupations to the contentious status of Britain's revolutionary past in the years after 1789.
Franzen's world-historical preoccupations also shape, though less delicately, his big account of the home front — the seething national peace that counterpoises the foreign war.
By the early 1950s Berlin's central beliefs had emerged out of the confluence of his philosophical preoccupations, historical studies, and political and moral commitments and anxieties; and his major ideas were either already fully formed, or developing.
In China, until comparatively recently, biography had been an appendage, or by-product, of historical writing and scholarly preoccupation with the art of government, in the continuing tradition of the "Historical Records" of Sima Qian and Pan Gu.
Benét's preoccupation with historical themes was also the basis for Western Star, an ambitious epic verse narrative on American history that Benét first planned in 1934 to consist of as many as five books but was left uncompleted at the time of his death.
But an interest in history can become an unhealthy preoccupation with historical grievances.
But as we move back and forth between his unchanging rocks and his ever-evolving clouds, Epstein's historical, temporal, and social preoccupations begin to reveal themselves.
Its medieval theme led to a wave of historical writing and "gothicism" (a preoccupation with an idealized and melodramatic past that later became especially popular in England) and with it a new interest in the visual aspects of theatre production.
