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Eric Hobsbawm

Data de nascimento: 9. Junho 1917
Data de falecimento: 1. Outubro 2012
Outros nomes:Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm foi um historiador marxista britânico reconhecido como um importante nome da intelectualidade do século XX. Ao longo de toda a sua vida, Hobsbawm foi membro do Partido Comunista Britânico.

Um de seus interesses foi o desenvolvimento das tradições. Seu trabalho é um estudo da construção dessas tradições no contexto do Estado-nação. Argumentou que muitas vezes as tradições são inventadas por elites nacionais para justificar a existência e importância de suas respectivas nações.

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Citações Eric Hobsbawm

„É precisamente essa a dificuldade de uma antropologia histórica-e-social que abandona a velha crença nos procedimentos e vocações de ambas as disciplinas, por inadequadas que possam ser sub specie aeternitatis, principalmente para o tipo de modelos intelectuais que assolaram os departamentos de literatura. Fica muito difícil conferir estrutura intelectual e expositória ou literária aos nossos escritos, afora o risco de que nosso tema seja desconstruído em fragmentos unidos apenas pela experiência comum de uma crise de identidade incomunicável.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
On History

„O domínio do passado não implica em uma imagem de imobilidade social. É compatível com visões cíclicas de mudança histórica, e certamente com a regressão e a catástrofe (ou seja, o fracasso em reproduzir o passado). É incompatível com a ideia de progesso contínuo.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
On History

„A história, mesmo quando generaliza com muita eficácia - e em minha opinião ela não vale muita coisa se não genereliza -, sempre está atenta à dessemelhança. A primeira lição que um historiador profissional aprende é ficar à espreita de anacronismo ou de diferenças naquilo que à primeira vista parece ser a mesma coisa, como a monarquia britânica em 1797 e 1997.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
On History

„Mito e invenção são essenciais à política de identidade pela qual grupos de pessoas, ao se definirem hoje por etnia, religião ou fronteiras nacionais passadas ou presentes, tentam encontrar alguma certeza em um mundo incerto e instável, dizendo: "Somos diferentes e melhores do que os Outros.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
On History

De pessoas, de mundo, de religião

„Naturalmente, minha objeção não é quanto aos historiadores tomarem de empréstimo técnicas e ideias de outras ciências sociais e incorporarem a seu próprio trabalho os mais recentes desenvolvimentos nessas ciências, desde que sejam úteis e pertinentes. É quanto à distribuição de bagagem histórica em uma série de vasos não comunicantes. Não existe uma coisa do tipo história econômica, social, antropológica, ou história psicanalística: existe apenas história.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
On History

„Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
p. 414.

„Why brilliant fashion-designers, a notoriously non-analytic breed,sometimes succeed in anticipating the shape of things to come better than professional predictors, is one of the most obscure questions in history; and, for the historian of culture, one of the most central.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
Context: Why brilliant fashion-designers, a notoriously non-analytic breed, sometimes succeed in anticipating the shape of things to come better than professional predictors, is one of the most obscure questions in history; and, for the historian of culture, one of the most central. Chapter Six, The Arts 1914-1945

„Words are witnesses which often speak louder than documents.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
Context: Words are witnesses which often speak louder than documents. Let us consider a few English words, which were invented or gained their modern meanings, substantially in the period of sixty years with which this volume deals. They are such words as 'industry', 'industrialist', 'factory,' middle class,' 'working class,' and 'socialism.' They include 'aristocracy,' as well as 'railway,' 'liberal' and 'conservative' as political terms, 'nationality,'scientist,' and 'engineer,' 'proletariat,' and (economic) 'crisis'. Introduction

„As I think back, I ask myself, again and again: was there an alternative to the indiscriminate , brutal, basically unplanned rush forward of the Five-Year Plan? I wish I could say there was, but I cannot. I cannot find a answer.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
Context: As I think back, I ask myself, again and again: was there an alternative to the indiscriminate, brutal, basically unplanned rush forward of the Five-Year Plan? I wish I could say there was, but I cannot. I cannot find a answer. Chapter Sixteen, End of Socialism

„Banditry is freedom, but in a peasant society few can be free. most are shackled by double chains of lordship and labour, one reinforcing the other.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
Context: Banditry is freedom, but in a peasant society few can be free. most are shackled by double chains of lordship and labour, one reinforcing the other. For what makes peasants the victim of authority is not as much their economic vulnerability - indeed they are as often as not virtually self sufficient - as their mobility. Chapter Two

„Uncertainty and unpredictability impended. Compass needles no longer had a North, maps became useless.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
Context: The old moral vocabulary of rights and duties, mutual obligations, sin and virtue, sacrifice, conscience, rewards, and penalties, could no longer be translated into the new language of desired gratification. Once such practices and institutions were no longer accepted as part of a way of ordering society that linked people to each other and ensured social cooperation and reproduction, most of their capacity to structure human social life vanished. They were reduced simply expressions of individuals' preferences, and claims that the law should recognize the supremacy of these preferences. Uncertainty and unpredictability impended. Compass needles no longer had a North, maps became useless. Chapter Eleven, Cultural Revolution, p.338-339

„My object is to understand ad explain why things turned out the way they did, and how they hang together.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
Context: My object is to understand ad explain why things turned out the way they did, and how they hang together. For anyone of my age-group who has lived through all or most of the Short Twentieth Century this is inevitably also a autobiographical endeavor. We are talking about, amplifying (and correcting) our own memories. And we are talking as men and women of a particular time and place, involved, in various ways, in its history as actors in its dramas - however insignificant our parts - as observers of our times and, not least, as people whose views of the century have been formed by what we have come to see as its crucial events. Introduction

„Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.“

— Eric Hobsbawm

„It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.“

— Eric Hobsbawm, How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

„Though the web of history cannot be unraveled into separate threads without destroying it, a certain amount of subdivion of the subject is, for practical purposes, essential.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
Preface

„The progress of science is not a simple linear advance, each stage marking the solution of posing of problems previously implicit or explicit in it, and in turn posing new problems.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
Chapter 15, Science

Frases de Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm

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Citações Eric Hobsbawm

„O domínio do passado não implica em uma imagem de imobilidade social. É compatível com visões cíclicas de mudança histórica, e certamente com a regressão e a catástrofe (ou seja, o fracasso em reproduzir o passado). É incompatível com a ideia de progesso contínuo.“

„Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.“

„Why brilliant fashion-designers, a notoriously non-analytic breed,sometimes succeed in anticipating the shape of things to come better than professional predictors, is one of the most obscure questions in history; and, for the historian of culture, one of the most central.“

„Words are witnesses which often speak louder than documents.“

„As I think back, I ask myself, again and again: was there an alternative to the indiscriminate , brutal, basically unplanned rush forward of the Five-Year Plan? I wish I could say there was, but I cannot. I cannot find a answer.“

„Banditry is freedom, but in a peasant society few can be free. most are shackled by double chains of lordship and labour, one reinforcing the other.“

„Uncertainty and unpredictability impended. Compass needles no longer had a North, maps became useless.“

„My object is to understand ad explain why things turned out the way they did, and how they hang together.“

„Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.“

„It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.“

„Though the web of history cannot be unraveled into separate threads without destroying it, a certain amount of subdivion of the subject is, for practical purposes, essential.“

„The progress of science is not a simple linear advance, each stage marking the solution of posing of problems previously implicit or explicit in it, and in turn posing new problems.“

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