I am neither a Hegelian (which is what Marx was, when you get down to it) nor a subscriber to the Great Man school.
History is just stuff happening. It happens for a number of (very) complex reasons that are contingent on both personalities and context. The Great Men are just the people who happen to be there and who are highly visible. …
I am neither a Hegelian (which is what Marx was, when you get down to it) nor a subscriber to the Great Man school.
History is just stuff happening. It happens for a number of (very) complex reasons that are contingent on both personalities and context. The Great Men are just the people who happen to be there and who are highly visible. There is a LOT of stuff going on under the hood, where it cannot be readily seen. A lot of that stuff is, for lack of a better term, random.
After (or even while) it is happening, we create a narrative (story) to explain it--THAT becomes History-and that changes depending upon who is telling the story and when it is being told.
I am neither a Hegelian (which is what Marx was, when you get down to it) nor a subscriber to the Great Man school.
History is just stuff happening. It happens for a number of (very) complex reasons that are contingent on both personalities and context. The Great Men are just the people who happen to be there and who are highly visible. There is a LOT of stuff going on under the hood, where it cannot be readily seen. A lot of that stuff is, for lack of a better term, random.
After (or even while) it is happening, we create a narrative (story) to explain it--THAT becomes History-and that changes depending upon who is telling the story and when it is being told.