Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:13:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Ben B. Day" <bday-AT-cs.umb.edu> Subject: Re: History of ... Well, I think he meant this statement literally, not metaphorically. We derive history from texts or other linguistic mediums. On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Bob wrote: > >Historians, as Gadamer puts it, immerse themselves in the > >stream of history - history is like one extremely large text, > >and its events and epochs constitute chapters or books. > > And yet, "history" can hardly be reduced to a diachronic/linear > model. While indeed it unfolds in time, it does not appear to me to > be a text, which to me implies being read diachronically (granted, > you may skip around, check the index, check the footnotes), but the > experience to me inferred by "reading" is one of diachronicity. > Rather I find history to be more synchronous, hence more like a > matrix. > >
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