HIST 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Warning Sign, Class Conflict, Empiricism
15 Sep 2016
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Nothing is more important to a historical narrative than causation. A theory of knowledge & method of historical inquiry. History must be compartmentalized and studied on its on terms. History as a craft (emphasis placed on skills & methods over theory) Aiming to tell things as they were (although this is na ve) The past exists outside of our mind and we are there to construct a narrative of it. We have a duty to recover the past however impartially and accurately. People challenge empiricism that there"s no external referent that we can recover and that historians are only creating the past as they write it. Historical waves: (there can be a wave of interest or, inversely, a receding wave of interest) Takes the hegelian structure and inserts class struggles. Whereas hegelian believed in idealist dialectics (privileges ideas in history) whereas marx privileged materials (of everyday life that permitted life ex.
