in the name of history
…many texts and films that have aspired to speak in the name of “history” (understood as the record of reality and the course of national destiny) have nevertheless also implied their failure to bear witness to history.
link—which in the name of history erases the historicity of the past.
link… Why should the historian have to think of the aspirations of social and cultural movements and what their propagandists are peddling in the name of history?
link… The Wall disappeared deliberately, and in the name of history.
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