Concerning the Paradox of Paradata. Or, “I don’t want realism; I want magic!”

<p>Traditional written historical investigation and analysis have from the beginning consisted of a sometimes unstable mixture of fact and conjecture, hard evidence and inspired imagination. To encourage 3-D modelling of cultural heritage artefacts to be taken seriously as historical scholarship this inevitable and ambiguous balance can be highlighted and to a significant degree documented and modulated by London Charter principles. This enhances the scholarly integrity of these models as examples of serious research based historical investigation, and helps avoid the dangers of inflated or unverified “media hype” which can compromise or discredit such work .</p>

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Morality, Nature, and Esotericism in Leo Strauss's Persecution and the Art of Writing

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670500038092 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 261-284 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michael S. Kochin

Keyword(s):

Moral Law ◽

Historical Scholarship ◽

The Enlightenment ◽

Moral Teaching ◽

The Face ◽

Historical Investigation ◽

History Of ◽

The Difference ◽

The Many

Strauss's historical investigation of the use of exoteric writing in Farabi, Maimonides, Halevi, and Spinoza, is in fact his history of the philosophers' exoteric accommodations to the permanent difference in human natures, the difference between the many who require a categorical moral teaching and the few who are capable of ordering their own lives in the face of the hypothetical status of all moral commands. The men of the Enlightenment aspired to render the moral law superfluous for all by constructing a machinery of government powerful enough to compel all to live justly. Strauss critiques this aspiration by leading his reader to face the permanency of the difference between the few and the many. Strauss uses historical scholarship to force the reader to rethink the possibility of contemplation of the eternal or permanent, the possibility that the Enlightenment's historicist epigones have sought to foreclose.

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Exploring the public perception of Communist Heritage in Post-communist Albania

Ex Novo: Journal of Archaeology ◽

10.32028/exnovo.v1i0.398 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 55-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Francesco Iacono ◽

Klejd L. Këlliçi

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Public Perception ◽

Eastern Bloc ◽

Capital City ◽

Social Significance ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

Historical Investigation ◽

Communist Past

More than a quarter of a century after the fall of the eastern bloc (broadly intended), former communist countries have dramatically changed. Yet the memory of the recent past is sometimes perceived as being accompanied by a considerable sense of unease. This process is mirrored clearly in the way some countries have dealt with the physical remains of the regime. This paper will focus on a case study from contemporary Albania and represents one of the first attempts at addressing the social significance of the remnants of the recent communist past in this country. It is undertaken not only through a theoretical and historical investigation, but also via a direct survey of the public (in this case a sample of citizens of the capital city Tirana). Our results suggest that, contrary to our initial assumptions, there is a considerable widely shared interest in the material remnants of the regime and that its cultural heritage its cultural heritage still needs to be explained.

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