商品简介 In These Essays, About A Quarter Of Them Previously Unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm Reflects Upon The Theory, Practice And Development Of History And Its Relevance To The Modern World. These Wide-Ranging Papers Reflect Professor Hobsbawm'S Lifelong Concern With The Relations Between Past, Present And Future. They Deal, Among Many Other Subjects, With The Problems Of Writing History, Its Abuses And The Historian'S Responsibilities; With The History Of Society And 'History From Below'; With Marx And Current Historical Trends Or Fashions; With Europe, The Russian Revolution And The Descent Into A World-Wide Barbarism That, Increasing For Most Of The Twentieth Century, Threatens To Destroy The Civilisation We Have Inherited From The European Enlightenment Of The Eighteenth Century. These Essays Reveal A Passionate Belief In The Importance Of Studying History, As Well As Displaying The Incisive Analysis, The Breadth Of Allusion And The Distinctive Viewpoint For Which This Great Historian Is Justly Famous.埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆在这些文章中反思了历史的理论、实践和发展及其与现代世界的相关性,其中约四分之一的文章此前未发表。这些内容广泛的论文反映了霍布斯鲍姆教授对过去、现在和未来之间关系的终生关注。除其他许多主题外,它们还涉及书写历史的问题、历史的滥用以及历史学家的责任;社会史和“自下而上的历史”;马克思与当前历史趋势或时尚;随着欧洲的爆发,俄罗斯革命以及世界范围内的野蛮主义的堕落,这种野蛮主义在二十世纪的大部分时间里不断加剧,威胁着我们从十八世纪的欧洲启蒙运动中继承下来的文明。这些文章揭示了对研究历史重要性的热情信念,并展示了这位伟大历史学家名副其实的精辟分析、广泛典故和独特观点。
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