Atıf İçin Kopyala
Yorgun I.
TARIH INCELEMELERI DERGISI, cilt.39, sa.2, ss.881-898, 2024 (ESCI)
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Yayın Türü:
Makale / Tam Makale
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Cilt numarası:
39
Sayı:
2
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Basım Tarihi:
2024
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Doi Numarası:
10.18513/egetid.1543287
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Dergi Adı:
TARIH INCELEMELERI DERGISI
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Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler:
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Index Islamicus, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
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Sayfa Sayıları:
ss.881-898
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Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli:
Evet
Özet
Historical events and past actions often have long-term effects and distant consequences that extend beyond their immediate context. This article argues that historians must be entitled to consider these far-reaching impacts when analyzing historical events and actions, thereby enhancing their understanding of the past. By reassessing presentism, which is the anachronistic imposition of modern perspectives on historical analysis, the article seeks to address a significant challenge in the discipline of history writing. Presentism distorts our understanding of the past by projecting contemporary values and ideas onto historical events. To counteract this tendency, the study also emphasizes the importance of contextual analysis, advocating for a rigorous examination of the cultural, social, economic, and political environments in which historical events occurred. The study also found that extracting historical events and actions from their temporal, contextual, cultural, or geographical settings often leads to presentism, making it crucial for historians to maintain a disciplined approach to understanding the past within its proper context.