{"id":10396,"date":"2015-08-04T21:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T20:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/?p=10396"},"modified":"2015-08-04T21:52:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T20:52:19","slug":"what-is-history-for-or-doing-history-thinking-historically-the-many-headed-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/2015\/08\/04\/what-is-history-for-or-doing-history-thinking-historically-the-many-headed-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"What is history for? Or: Doing history\/ thinking historically | the many-headed monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fludd.jpg?resize=434%2C439\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Je retiens : <em>\u00abHistory is not merely about content (facts), it is also a particular and systematic methodology, a distinctive way of reading, thinking, questioning and analysing. \u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, I delivered the introductory lecture for a second year undergraduate module, \u2018Doing History\u2019, and for various tedious reasons, I also recently spent some time reading, reflecting on and writing about why I consider history to be valuable. In the process, I conducted an entirely unscientific google trawl, trying to gauge what the general perception of the discipline was. I was struck by the fact that the popular or \u2018commonsense\u2019 perception of history encourages a rather limited assessment of its social and intellectual usefulness. What exactly do I mean?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/manyheadedmonster.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/15\/what-is-history-for-or-doing-history-thinking-historically\/\">What is history for? Or: Doing history\/ thinking historically | the many-headed monster<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Je retiens : \u00abHistory is not merely about content (facts), it is also a particular and systematic methodology, a distinctive way of reading, thinking, questioning and analysing. \u00bb Last week, I delivered the introductory lecture for a second year undergraduate module, \u2018Doing History\u2019, and for various tedious reasons, I also recently spent some time reading, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What is history for? 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