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News from Nowhere
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 68, Number 3, July 2007
- pp. 375-379
- 10.1353/jhi.2007.0017
- Article
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This short article reflects critically on the method, politics and epistemology of Stefan Collini's Absent Minds. Collini's method involves a long meditation rather than anything systematic. In comparative history, he is at east with France and America, but less so Germany and Eastern Europe or Russia. Without announcing an overt set of political principles, Absent Minds develops a master-narrative of social-democratic intellectual leadership, but this commitment is undermined by Collini's presentation of epistemology as a non-problem.