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Historical understanding and reconciliation after violent conflict Universiteit Gent
Caminhos para a teoria da história filosofia das historicidades e a questão da justiça histórica Universiteit Gent
Philosophy of history after 1945 : a bibliometric study Universiteit Gent KU Leuven
State-sponsored history after 1945 : an introduction Universiteit Gent
Time, presence, and historical injustice Universiteit Gent
The relationship between history and justice traditionally has been dominated by the idea of the past as distant or absent (and with that, irreversible). This ambiguous ontological status makes it very difficult to situate the often-felt "duty to remember" or obligation to "do justice to the past" in that past itself, and this has led philosophers from Friedrich Nietzsche to Keith Jenkins to plead against an "obsession" with history in favor of ...
Breaking up time: negotiating the borders between present, past and future Universiteit Gent
This article sketches some of the recent evolutions in the study historical time. It proposes three issues that up to now have not received a lot of attention, but in our view deserve to be put on the research agenda. Three questions seem especially pertinent and urgent. First there is the question of how cultures in general and historians in particular distinguish ‘past’ from ‘present’ and ‘future’. We have a closer look at three historians as ...