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Which institution did Leszek Kołakowski assert we "learn history.. to know who we are"?

  • Jefferson Lecture

  • Nobel Lecture

  • Erasmus Speech

  • Oxford Address

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The Jefferson Lecture is a lecture series held annually by the National Endowment for the Humanities in the United States. The lecture is given by a distinguished scholar or public figure, and is named after Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and a strong advocate for the importance of education. In his 1984 lecture, "History and Hope", Leszek Kołakowski asserted that "we learn history..
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