[Counter-history’s] function is polemical. [Its] method consists of the systematic exploitation of the adversary’s most trusted sources against their grain — ‘die Geschichte gegen den Strich kommen.’ [Its] aim is the distortion of the adversary’s self-image, of his identity, through the deconstruction of his memory.
Tag: Amos Funkenstein
(1937–1995) Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and major figure in Jewish studies and the history of science.