Well-intentioned historical revisionism still fails rigorous evidentiary standards

Evidence

This book is obviously the result of much labor and devotion, and to have to reject its conclusions so roundly is painful … but the problem posed by the book still awaits an openended examination of the evidence and a more sober mode of historical analysis” (n89). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 937

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Historical truth is not validated by success or acceptance — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 784; Materialist errors are correctable by evidence, not reducible to discursive position; Historical purity is unrecoverable through backward projection of an invented origin. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 300 (+1 more)