Bernardo Bertolucci, 1900 and the Myth of Fascism
Abstract
Bernardo Bertolucci, 1900 and the Myth of Fascism SAGE Publications, Inc.1989DOI: 10.1177/026569148901900102 Richard Bosworth Credo che il progresso del pensiero politico stia in istretto rapporto col progresso della storiografia; e guarire i mali di questa e contribuire alia cura dei mali dell'altro. ('I believe that the progress of political thought stands in strict relationship with the progress of historiography; and to heal the ills of the latter is to contribute to looking after the ills of the formers 1 Historians are students of time, servants of time, dealers in time. But this time in which they deal is not a simple, reliable, linear one. All historians know that the past which they study is in a state of flux, that it is not set in time, or rather that it is set in a way little less evanescent than the present. A stable past lasts only as long as the latest 'authoritative study' on it remains authoritative. The present, too, is evanescent. The creation of some version of the past, it in turn manufactures another past for itself. Whatever may be true of historical time, the historian's time is complex, fragmented, convoluted. Past and present endlessly jostle, meeting