![]() ![]() In “Political Conjuncture and Scholarly Disjunctures: Reflections on Studies of the Philippine State under Marcos,” Aguilar contends that scholars, more than ever, need to “influence public discourse and shape public history.” For him, public history is “the arena through which historical knowledge can reach the public” and therefore is “a site of discursive struggle.”Īguilar cites three reasons why social scientists have failed to influence public discourse. managing all their affairs by speaking with and persuading each other.” This meaning of politics underpins the reflections of our chief editor, Dr Filomeno Aguilar Jr., in a professorial address recently published in Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. The political theorist Hannah Arendt defined politics as the space where “men in their freedom can interact with one another without compulsion, force, and rule over one another, as equals among equals. ![]() (Photo courtesy of the National Library of the Philippines ) Re-electionist President Ferdinand Marcos during his campaign for the Presidential Elections of 1969. ![]()
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