Since I’m supposed to be professionally interested in this sort of thing, here is Modris Eksteins, in a recent TLS review (“Spirited,” Aug 24/31, pg 32, of Jon Savage’s, Teenage: The creation of youth 1875-1945). I’ll give most of the paragraph, as set-up:
But perhaps the avoidance of theory and connectivity is all to the good. Causality as historical enterprise seems dead anyway. History as explanation is passé. History today is all about feeling the past...
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