[lbo-talk] The myth of homophobia (was Pansy Power)

[Philip Pilkington]

>
> > Have I just been accused of transhistoricism by one person and
> historicism
> > by another person?
>
> Yup. And both are correct. Many kinds of error can lead to positing
> transhistorical explanations, but historicism is one major source of the
> error.
>
> Carrol
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> Carrol
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So what exactly is the "key", the supposed "truth" above "error" here? I'd
argue that its ontological/epistemological, but then that's what I've been
arguing all along and its been rejected... I don't quite get the logic
functioning here...

I shouldn't delve into the past without a firm notion of the present and
thus I SHOULD make "transhistorical" judgements (i.e. I should never delve
into the past without a framework conceived from the present) and yet, for
some reason, I should also not posit some sort of pure historicism where I
claim that everything is historical and thus I SHOULDN'T make
"transhistorical" judgements.