TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kroll, Stefan
T1  - Does the present matter? : [Rezension zu: Marcus M. Payk, Frieden durch Recht? Der Aufstieg des modernen Völkerrechts und der Friedensschluss nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2018, 793 p., ISBN 978-3-11-057845-4]
T2  - Rechtsgeschichte = Legal history
N2  - The relationship between past and present has been the subject of controversial debates in historical research time and again. In 2013, to give a prominent example, Philip Alston in a review essay discussed the issue of "Does the past matter?" with regard to a debate on the origins of human rights. The debate was dedicated to the controversial question of "[h]ow far back can we trace the genealogy of today’s international human rights system". In this review, I would like to rephrase this question to ask instead to what degree the present matters for historical writing. Other than in the work of Alston, this is not meant as a question on the contingency and path-dependence of history, but rather as a reflection on how historians describe and evaluate the past and what role knowledge of the present may have in this context. ...
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51623
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-516233
SN  - 2195-9617
SN  - 1619-4993
N1  - Dieser Beitrag steht unter einer Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
VL  - 27
SP  - 446
EP  - 448
PB  - Max-Planck-Inst. für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -