Open AccessHistoriekultur – Helsingfors som case
Author(s) -
Niels Kayser Nielsen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
slagmark
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1904-8602
pISSN - 0108-8084
DOI - 10.7146/sl.v0i60.103993
Subject(s) - acknowledgement , appropriation , political history , reflexivity , politics , social history (medicine) , history , sociology , epistemology , political science , social science , law , philosophy , computer science , medicine , computer security , surgery
With Helsinki as a case, this article deals with the appropriation of history and the political use of history. The attitude towards history comprehends both a contemporary reflexive awareness of and responsibility towards history with a submission of history as intention, and a common sense-attitude which an acknowledgement of history as a past which is fundamentally different from us. The main point is that people normally oscillate between these two relations to history, bound to special situations and needs.