POSTMODERNIST (LATE C20TH) PHILOLOGY NEGATIVISM Foucault argued that all historical sources are The study of language is Rejects human agency in historical biased, incomplete and that the language has no used to pull apart texts affairs. Rejects all sources. Rejects be fixed meaning. He therefore suggested that the past to highlight ambiguities the possibility of empathetic – in past. was unknowable. A belief that all interpretations of no lessons understanding of the past. history are equally valid… used Sources cannot reconstructing the
POSTMODERNIST (LATE C20TH) Foucault argued that all historical sources are biased, incomplete and that the language has no fixed meaning. He therefore suggested that the past was unknowable. A belief that all interpretations of history are equally valid… Sources cannot be used in reconstructing the past. PHILOLOGY The study of language is used to pull apart texts to highlight ambiguities – no lessons NEGATIVISM Rejects human agency in historical affairs. Rejects all sources. Rejects the possibility of empathetic understanding of the past.
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