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Historical facts are not objects. В‘Historical-realВ’ is constitutively representational and constitutively temporal because it is a process. The question of what is a given truth in history then becomes the dilemma of creating a representative reconstruction of the process of (past) events that is close to the В‘realВ’ events as they are given in that specific time. Those В‘realВ’ events have been conceived, represented, lived, created, and narrated. The interweaving of the theory of history and the [cognitive] t...

Human identity is constitutively В‘historicalВ’, as well as cultural and a narrative. History is the quintessence of us, as human beings that live in a certain epoch and within a certain culture. But because of the fact that this formation and configuration of our personal identity is rooted in historical, psychological and linguistic (Steiner) mechanisms of representation, then by modifying certain representational axes (i.e., modifying culture, narration, lifestyle practicesВ…) not only may we modify the meaning...