RT Journal Article
T1 Why history is always political.
A1 López-Sánchez, Rosario
K1 Filosofía política
K1 Historia - Filosofía
AB At present, describing historians as political actors evokes bias, political manoeuvring and a lack of critical thinking. This description conjures up historians merely as political pundits, rummaging through history in search of evidence to support their own political goals and potentially falling into presentism. The past few decades have seen the rise of this hybrid profile, and while some have claimed that politicians need historians so that we can transform current political debates and use their expertise to help us project ourselves into the future, critical voices have warned that ‘rapid-fire’ superficial histories might serve political aims at the price of historical accuracy.Therefore, defining J G A Pocock (1924-2023) both as a historian and a political actor stands in need of clarification since, arguably, he does not fit into a two-camp debate on the usefulness of history, but instead he shows how history inhabits us at a much deeper political level
PB Aeon
YR 2024
FD 2024-12-20
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36572
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36572
LA eng
NO Rosario López, "Why history is always political" Aeon, 2024. URL: https://aeon.co/essays/history-is-always-political-and-contest-over-it-is-a-good-thing
NO https://aeon.co/author-terms
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 25 ene 2026