“There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.” AbilitySourceTerribleJudgmentAreasFilledConstantHistoricalIgnorantCategoriesPretenseDistortionBlundersGeneralization Author:Camille Paglia
“Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians - childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on - suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.” WorldLittlesHas BeensBookWholeValuesFoundWrittenChildhoodMaterialsAreasHistoricalAnalysisHistorianImageryNeglectedChunksHistory BooksPeripheryWritten History Author:Lloyd deMause
“The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.” NeedsMindBelieveHumansHandsAgeFormOrderFoundAreasHistoricalRationalRadicalDelusionMaterialismCooperationFewerParticipationCultNew AgeHuman ExperienceMiraculousMundaneHypeDoorwaysPublicistsReductionism Author:Terence McKenna
“Historical romance is still very strong in the market. Writers of historical romance are making the bestselling lists on a regular basis and careers are growing. However, since there is much more variety in romance today, the total sales of historicals might be down from their peak. The talk of the market softening is a reflection of this, and of the fact that one does not see big growth in this area of the market.” DoeStillsFactsBigsMightTodayRomanceStrongGrowthCareersGrowingReflectionAreasBasesHistoricalListsVarietyVery Strong Author:Madeline Hunter
“Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.” LittlesHas BeensDoneFieldsAreasHistoricalCriticsInterpretationProfessional Work Author:Hershel Shanks
“In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.” DifferentRealDifferencesWhiteAnimalParticularEuropeAreasAssumingPlantHistoricalSpeciesDuesAccidentsRacistContinentsStemEstatesGeographyTrajectoryColonizationAxesPlants And Animals Author:Jared Diamond
“In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.” SoulSpiritualHumanityFateHappeningsAreasHistoricalSpiritual LifeEpoch Book:Husserl, shorter works Source: Husserl, shorter works