Comments for History Teaches at http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/english , comment 0 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/english Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:55:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/english/content/view/119/29/#pc_355 I just can't start my commentary without expressing my first impression about the 'article'. As a matter of fact, some two hours ago and before I started reading the text, I was thinking of the effects postmodernist thought on our conception of the past and the value of tradition as a consequence. So, perhaps it is a matter of coincidence. Anyway, I find the rext quite interesting and a sort of thorny and debatable issue too. Maybe this a long-standing question. History as you strived to explain is present in ou 'un-)consciousness not merely as a ùust, but more importantly, as a way out, a release and an exit. It offers us an escape from the current malaise and intellectual cul-de-sac produced by 'post-modern' (in fact, we really need a better definition for the postmodern that the one most of us are familiar with (see François Lyotard, Frederic Jameson and Linda Hutcheon ) thought. In few words, we cannot do without history. His or her story, we need them. We need the records, personal journals and the like of the so-called 'informal data' of the laymen and women and those of the subaltern so that we would be in a better position to form a balanced view of history, perhaps better to say, the various histories experienced and 'created' by homo sapiens. - kamal mhamdi Thu, 01 May 2008 20:04:13 +0100 http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/english/content/view/119/29/#pc_354 sure, history is something, indeed a big thing. but, where is history and who cares about it in this materially-multidimensional world where things keep metamorphosing day and night, every second, every minute and every hour. - Joe Thu, 01 May 2008 14:04:38 +0100 http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/english/content/view/119/29/#pc_353 Line 30: 'lances' should be 'lenses'. Thank you! The writer. - Hashasm Thu, 01 May 2008 13:51:33 +0100