history
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Hegel and History
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The point of studying Hegel, and by extension the purpose of contextualising historical thinkers, should concern itself less with relating his circumstances to our own and more with identifying the discrepancies and continuities between different historical eras. The past was past, but it still weighs, in the words of Marx, ‘like a nightmare on the…
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Timelessness in Pre-Modern Politics
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A de-temporalized politics is, then, not only imaginable—it was, to some extent, once a reality. For the scholastic, a week was most certainly not a long time in politics—nor indeed was a year or a century. Only in the modern time regime, governed by the politics of the particular, can such an utterance be considered…
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The Downplayed Role of the Asian Theatre in WWII
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Despite the acknowledgement that the Second World War was composed of three major theatres (Europe, Asia, and the Pacific), the Asian battlefield remains a marginalized topic outside of Asia. Here, I argue that it is problematic to downplay the role of the Asian battlefield, and that wars in mainland Asia and the Pacific should be…