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The unbelieved and historians, part III: Responses and elaborations
Author(s) -
Clark Roland,
Clossey Luke,
Ditchfield Simon,
Gordon David M.,
Wiesenthal Arlen,
Zaman Taymiya R.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/hic3.12430
Subject(s) - humility , agency (philosophy) , space (punctuation) , psychology , aesthetics , epistemology , philosophy , political science , law , linguistics
The first two parts of "The Unbelieved" argued for the possibility of the existence of supernatural beings and for their agency in historical writing. This instalment is a roundtable assessing the problems and potential in the category of the Unbelieved and in its knowability. Space limitations prevented our following the rich avenues of further inquiry our extraordinary peer reviewers suggested, but we remain grateful, especially for their reminders of the complexity of motivations of historians who avoid the Unbelieved and their emphasis on the importance of humility as a historian's tool.