historical consciousness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandconsciousness
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historical
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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consciousness
noun[U]
uk/ˈkɒn.ʃəs.nəs/us/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs.nəs/
the state of understanding and ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandconsciousnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The result raises fundamental questions about the thinness of state-centredhistoricalconsciousness as well as the paradoxically individualistic nature of kinship.
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Encouraged by the success of the 1988 exhibition, the organisers kept stimulating the newly arousedhistoricalconsciousnessof their fellow villagers.
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Hishistoricalconsciousnesstriumphed over his desire as a narrator.
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However, these goals were frequently stymied by the same stronghistoricalconsciousnessthe leaders were trying to utilize.
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Historiographical papers concluded the afternoon, mostly concerning the late eighteenth century and gauging both that century'shistoricalconsciousnessand ours.
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That commonality aside, these books trace out very different paths and suggest somewhat different readings ofhistoricalconsciousness.
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Perhaps the ultimate test of the value ofhistoricalconsciousnessis to what degree it imprisons the imagination, and to what degree it sets the imagination free.
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But he expressed himself tactfully, in a mild and indirect fashion, choosing to speak his mind through semi-fictional stories which embodied his ownhistoricalconsciousness, rather than through factual accounts.
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Rather, it is to a more general concern with the history ofhistoricalconsciousness, particularly among dominant social groups in the pre-colonial or early colonial period, that studies have turned.
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Althoughhistoricalconsciousnesstakes formation through the experience of events over time, it does not necessarily follow that awareness of the past faithfully reproduces the facts of those happenings.
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Thehistoricalconsciousnessthat becomes visible in their work is a significant rupture in our thinking about the past...
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Health problems, lack ofhistoricalconsciousnessand mid-twentieth century aesthetics led to the demolition of the original market.
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The questioning of theism was not confined to abstract concerns in philosophy, but also developed as modernhistoricalconsciousnessdawned.
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Ku rejects both an artistic sensibility that lacks spiritual depth and a crude intellect that lacks ahistoricalconsciousness.
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Weiner has written numerous articles about a wide variety of topics involving law, culture, andhistoricalconsciousness.
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It made a continuoushistoricalconsciousnesspossible.
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