1. Can I rewrite the highlighted sentence after the colon like this:

1. It is a view that tends to see history as a fixed condition, effectively suppressing undesirable, uncomfortable or ‘less important’ narratives, as opposed to acknowledging the patchwork of diverse, conflicting and changing points of departure at various moments in time. In other words this view tends to see history as ‘sum of ruptures, each marking the new, not a supposed continuum’, as Kahler puts it.

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2.It is a view that tends to see history as a fixed condition, effectively suppressing undesirable, uncomfortable or ‘less important’ narratives, as opposed to acknowledging the patchwork of diverse, conflicting and changing points of departure at various moments in time and opposed to seeing history as ‘sum of ruptures, each marking the new, not a supposed continuum’, as Kahler puts it.

Context:

Typically, then, a building such as the former Bohemian Court Chancellory, designed by the celebrated Fischer von Erlach in 1710, creates, with its ornate facade ‘the symbolic presence of an official Austrian architectural and civic patrimony, particularly through its invocation of a lost empire and the very name of its architect, the most beloved builder of the Austrian Baroque’. Now the Constitutional and Administrative Court in Vienna, the building also functioned as the seat of the Nazi administrative courts in Austria. The desire to preserve or, indeed, ‘hide behind’ a ‘facade of history’ is embodied, then, in the very built environment of the square. It is a view that tends to see history as a fixed condition, effectively suppressing undesirable, uncomfortable or ‘less important’ narratives, as opposed to acknowledging the patchwork of diverse, conflicting and changing points of departure at various moments in time: a ‘sum of ruptures, each marking the new, not a supposed continuum’, as Kahler puts it.