Commonplace book: historicize this!

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Fredric Jameson Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991: Duke University Press):

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an ages that has forgotten to think historically in the first place"

Peter W. Rose. "Historicizing Sophocles's Ajax in History, tragedy, theory: dialogues on Athenian drama, ed. Barbara Goff (1995: UTexas Press):

...we too in our culture need to come to grips with our deep emotional investments in our own John Waynes, Charles Bronsons, Chuck Norrises, and Clint Eastwoods -- with figures whose essential brutality, moral obtuseness, and gender-based emotional blockage we are constantly invited to forgive for the little behavioral crumbs evincing their stunted potential for human feeling.