Identify how historical positivism changed, if at all, over the course of these decades, and marshal evidence from the readings and film in support of your argument.
Paper detalis: Judging by Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) and Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), historical positivism—the view that history is a story of continual progress—was on the wane by the first decades of the twentieth century. Or was it? John Scott’s Behind the Urals (1942) and the film “Burnt by the Sun” (1994, […]