This is a good question.
My first inclination was yes, at least for practitioners, followed by whether there was ever a time when this was true, at least among society at large. But, then, I see doing history as a discursive process in the present, so can it ever be uncoupled from the present?
The pursuit of knowledge about the past can (and imo should) be the principle concern, and some types of scholarship are more out of time than others, but can any of it be solely about the past in its own right? I am skeptical, as a methodological principle.
