Trafika Europe 13 - Russian Ballet

Judeophile

reason that you are interested in history no less than in electronics?” “Well, I couldn’t care less about electronics,” I confessed in my heart of hearts. “Wonderful! Of course, history – is a concept, and a concept specific to a particular culture. It’s a Judeo- Christian idea, let’s be frank. And Hegel went so far as to make history the Tower of Babel of existence, which humanity is predestined to build. But there are peoples and cultures that do not recognize ‘the historical perspective’... I believe that nations, just as individual people, have a fate, and that means they also….” “It seems to me,” I had finally found an interlocutor with whom I wished to share my most intimate thoughts, “that history, and even fate, is the subject of a narrative; history is created by narrators and they are the ones who tell it, as a rule, not the way it was but in a way which, in their opinion, may be interesting to their listeners….” “That is an excellent idea. But a story and a need for it – that is exactly what culture is. And the bible is, it just so happens, the first historical book in the world, a book in which history is described, the history of an entire people’s relationship with their God, a love affair with God, so to speak.…” The door was carefully pushed from the outside, it slowly opened and on its threshold appeared a tall woman, some fifty years of age, perhaps a little less – I wasn’t

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