The Past Is a Foreign Country¶
Lowenthal, D. (1985). The Past Is a Foreign Country. Cambridge University Press.
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Primes¶
- Historical Empathy
- The breadth of application is articulated by Lowenthal (1985), whose treatment of "the past as a foreign country" extends across historical research and biography, teaching of history (K-12 and higher-ed pedagogy), anthropology (the parallel move of methodological relativism in fieldwork), literary and film interpretation of historical settings, legal-history interpretation of past statutes and practices, policy-historical analysis (why did a prior policy that now looks foolish make sense to its authors?), cross-cultural negotiation, and organizational historiography (why did a prior team make a decision that now looks strange?).
This sourceTreats the past as genuinely alien territory whose conventions, beliefs, and material conditions must be reconstructed rather than assumed continuous with the present; canonical statement of temporal alterity.
- The breadth of application is articulated by Lowenthal (1985), whose treatment of "the past as a foreign country" extends across historical research and biography, teaching of history (K-12 and higher-ed pedagogy), anthropology (the parallel move of methodological relativism in fieldwork), literary and film interpretation of historical settings, legal-history interpretation of past statutes and practices, policy-historical analysis (why did a prior policy that now looks foolish make sense to its authors?), cross-cultural negotiation, and organizational historiography (why did a prior team make a decision that now looks strange?).
- Presentism
- Naming presentism explicitly distinguishes it from other interpretive errors (fabrication, denial, moral disagreement) and makes it a tractable target for correction.
This sourceTreats the past as genuinely alien territory whose conventions, beliefs, and material conditions must be reconstructed rather than assumed continuous with the present; canonical statement of temporal alterity.
- Naming presentism explicitly distinguishes it from other interpretive errors (fabrication, denial, moral disagreement) and makes it a tractable target for correction.
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