“Where the insider's engagement with the discipline's concepts and practices is combined with the moral distance maintained by the outsider one has reason to look for the emergence of a historiography that is both critical and effective.”

—  Kurt Danziger

Source: "Does the history of psychology have a future?." 1994, p. 479

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