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Natural admiration for excellence and justifiable pride in a predecessor's achievements (the Dantesca movement in Italy, for instance), is sometimes difficult to sort out from |
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Natural admiration for excellence and justifiable pride in a predecessor's achievements is sometimes difficult to sort out from other intentions. Dante was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing and publishing a usable and affordable text, but the Divine Comedy was certainly used by the newly unified Italian governemnt (see Italy/History) to encourage a more homogenous, Tuscan-influenced dialect for the whole peninsula (see Italian language). |
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This relationship between ideology and serious work is particularly ambiguous in the academic fields of historical importance. Much as 19th century science is often treated as the inventor of illegitimate racist conceptions of evolution and anthropology, many 19th century historians pursued what they intended as reasonably objective research projects in the history of their own and other regions either to end by themselves using the results to support nationalistic goals or to see their work used that way by others. |
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This relationship between ideology and serious work is particularly ambiguous in the academic fields of historical importance. Much as 19th century science is often treated as the inventor of conceptions of evolution and race which had serious negative political and social consequences, many 19th century historians pursued what they intended as reasonably objective research projects in the history of their own and other regions either to end by themselves using the results to support nationalistic goals or to see their work used that way by others. |
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see also: :Romantic nationalism |
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