/lit/ - Literature

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Michelet might not count as a 'real' historian by modern standards. But he was a literary artist with his own unique, comprehensive metaphysical vision of the world. Joan of Arc is the French Revolution, the People, France, the sacred feminine, active justice as opposed to the passive grace of the church etc. etc. For Michelet, to write history is to bring the dead back to life. Jacob Burckhardt and Walter Benjamin were both great fans of his for different reasons.