: It must attend to history—specifically the "historical activity of understanding where [our ideas] came from"—because these ideas are contingent and have evolved over time.
According to Williams and other scholars like Erwin Panofsky, the proper features of such a discipline include:
: Its primary function is to help humans make sense of their lives, ideas, and experiences in the specific situation they find themselves in.
: In fields like art history, it involves studying "documents" (traces of human thought/action) and "monuments" (artifacts that hold urgent meaning for us in the present).
: It must attend to history—specifically the "historical activity of understanding where [our ideas] came from"—because these ideas are contingent and have evolved over time.
According to Williams and other scholars like Erwin Panofsky, the proper features of such a discipline include:
: Its primary function is to help humans make sense of their lives, ideas, and experiences in the specific situation they find themselves in.
: In fields like art history, it involves studying "documents" (traces of human thought/action) and "monuments" (artifacts that hold urgent meaning for us in the present).
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