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The Origins of Study of the Past: A Comparative Approach

1962; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0010417500001341

1475-2999

J. G. A. Pocock,

Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy

In this paper I shall attempt to consider how far the history of historiography can be treated as the history of the problems occasioned by men's awareness of the past in different societies, and of their attempts to deal with these problems. This kind of approach has not, so far as I know, been made before. That is to say, the history of historiography has not been approached as primarily a part of the history of social man's awareness of his past and his relations with it; and this is understandable enough, as the historical phenomena we call by the collective name of historiography have been by no means limited to the attempts made by historians and other thinkers to understand the past and its relationship to the present.