Approaches to Global Intellectual History: Jürgen Osterhammel
Jürgen Osterhammel discusses Eurocentrism and the status of world history in the German academy
Jürgen Osterhammel discusses Eurocentrism and the status of world history in the German academy
Professor Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths) argues that history-writing is not the recreation of a past that is always-already there, lying mute and waiting for the historian to give it voice, but is instead a code or genre or technology, one which constructs the past in ways that make it amenable to representation through the code of history.