An anti-historicist sense of history is knowing when to make exceptions for principles and taking on burden of eternal storytelling after...
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...an exception/special case becomes fuel for dangerous historicism when it becomes possible to use it as a precedent in uncritical ways...
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... the only thing that can prevent that is *living* memory...a constant reinterpretation of the story in new contexts to restrict its power
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