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• He criticized what he called historicism, the perspective that all standards are relative to or imposed by particular historical situations.
• First, because any genuine form of historicism is already presentist in its very challenge to an unentailed, objectivist historiography.
• Perhaps alterity has become such a blind spot in historicism generally because it simultaneously serves as a proxy for "accuracy" and self-consciousness.
• Another influential summary statement of the common sense of old historicism is Tony Tanner’s essay, Notes for