Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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The Real Meaning of 19 18 Is Determined Contextually
The meaning of any event is determined contextually all the way forward, right? The real meaning of 19 18 was one thing then, it's another thing now. And this also changes pretty radically. I think you're goin to see tons of new studies of 19 18, not just from historians of medicine, but also, i think you're going to see people writing about plagues in the past and fictions of plagues. Rite: These things that come to us from the past can be renewed in a really powerful and profound way by changes in the present.
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