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frualeydis) wrote2004-01-26 04:12 pm
frualeydis) wrote2004-01-26 04:12 pm
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Full of life
We have just ended a seminar on marxist historical theory and it was so much fun!
We had two short texts to read as a starting point, one by Christopher Hill and one by E.J. Hobsbawm, but the discussion centered much about what marxist historical theory has contributed to modern historical research? Can it be useful today? does a historian need a "philosophy", a view of society as a whole? Why is so much recent research concentrated on a theory of balance rather than on conflict?
And much more.
And now I feel so alive! As if I could run the whole way home (which I really can't because I get contractions if I walk fast even) and sing while doing it.
I have the best job in the world!!!
We had two short texts to read as a starting point, one by Christopher Hill and one by E.J. Hobsbawm, but the discussion centered much about what marxist historical theory has contributed to modern historical research? Can it be useful today? does a historian need a "philosophy", a view of society as a whole? Why is so much recent research concentrated on a theory of balance rather than on conflict?
And much more.
And now I feel so alive! As if I could run the whole way home (which I really can't because I get contractions if I walk fast even) and sing while doing it.
I have the best job in the world!!!