Sunday, December 31, 2023
Critical History
Dieter Wuttke, "Erwin Panofsky," in Colum Hourihane, ed.,
The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 105-122 (p. 107, with note on p. 120):
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The historian Joachim Fest observed, "Was sich kritische Geschichte nennt, offenbart häufig weniger Kraft zur Unterscheidung, als zur Verdammung, und kein Respekt vor dem Stummsein der Toten macht den Anklägern die Schuldsprüche schwer." (That which is called critical history often discloses not so much the power to discern than the wish to condemn, and the accusers having no respect for the silence of the dead are ready with their verdict.)10
10 J. Fest, Wege zur Geschichte (Zurich, 1992), 127-28.
