Where can I learn the history of present-tense historicizing?
By this I mean gestures (by scholars, journalists, artists, victors, victims) toward the surrounding world that ask or answer, "How will capital-H History view this moment?"
When has that been more or less of a thing? Why? With what hope? With what results?
And the followup:
Am I correct in perceiving a modern feeling that we move too fast and dumb for History's paltry justice to be meaningful, now or in some eventual future?
@alexreed re your follow-up, i don't know about general sentiments: in school assignments we always tried to get at that by picking l quotes from publications, but it seems to me that you could pick and choose to cast some fringe ideas as commonly held or accepted.
anyway, that just sounds like a typical postmodernist take, so maybe you could get an answer by exploring #postmodern criticism.
