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Article: Historia and Fabula: Myths and Legends in Historical Thought from Antiquity to the Modern Age.
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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First, what this book is not. This is no work of the recent Parisian school, in which thinkers are mere vessels for the ebb and flow of discourse. Here, rather, the author, a methodological pre-Parisian, lets his thinkers puzzle over problems transparent, he assumes, at once to us and to them. Likewise, too, this is no social, or institutional, or biographical, or otherwise contextual history of ideas. Thinkers, as they arise in discussion, possess their thoughts, and little else; it is up to the reader to flesh the skeletons of their ideas and to site the thoughts in a thinker who lived in a place and a time outside the realm of autonomous, usually rational thought. Nor is ...