I'm not going to claim to be a Schama expert. For me he's "...a vague and shadowy personage".
But he does seem to be a general historian...by this I meant that he writes about different times and places, not specializing in one particular time and place. So I would assume he makes judgements from a more general perspective...and not from the perspective of someone who has had a lifetime's focus and love for a specific historical period and the people who lived in it.
I have read some Zizek. Very interesting...although sometimes he seems to try too hard to have a unique perspective on an issue just for the sake of being unique.
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Date: 2009-07-23 12:54 am (UTC)But he does seem to be a general historian...by this I meant that he writes about different times and places, not specializing in one particular time and place. So I would assume he makes judgements from a more general perspective...and not from the perspective of someone who has had a lifetime's focus and love for a specific historical period and the people who lived in it.
I have read some Zizek. Very interesting...although sometimes he seems to try too hard to have a unique perspective on an issue just for the sake of being unique.