Tag: history
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Deliberate Remembrance and Deliberate Decisions
Abstract values are so devastatingly easy to forget. And forgotten values are easy to ignore. In the abstract, I think that democracy and free speech are great achievements and worth protecting. But superficial knowledge often just isn’t very motivating or “action-guiding”. It’s frequently trumped by more concrete and familiar experiences, ideas, “internalised” knowledge and the feelings…
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Peter von Matt (20 May 1937 – 21 April 2025)
Peter von Matt (20 May 1937 – 21 April 2025) Dear English-Speaking Friends. Peter von Matt was a Swiss literary scholar, author, and essayist. He died last week. I only met him once. He gave a speech, on the 60th birthday of one of my professors at the time, about what makes historical research and…
Lara Thurnherr 