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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.

Citações Eric Hobsbawm

„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

„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

„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

„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

„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

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

— Eric Hobsbawm

„The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must mean, public non-profit initiative, even if only in redistributing private accumulation. Public decisions aimed at collective social improvement from which all human lives should gain. That is the basis of progressive policy—not maximising economic growth and personal incomes. Nowhere will this be more important than in tackling the greatest problem facing us this century, the environmental crisis. Whatever ideological logo we choose for it, it will mean a major shift away from the free market and towards public action, a bigger shift than the British government has yet envisaged. And, given the acuteness of the economic crisis, probably a fairly rapid shift. Time is not on our side.“

— 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

„Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
The Age Of Empire 1875-1914

„Human mental identities are not like shoes, of which we can only wear one pair at a time. We are all multi-dimensional beings. Whether a Mr. Patel in London will think of himself primarily as an Indian, a British citizen, a Hindu, a Gujarati-speaker, an ex-colonist from Kenya, a member of a specific caste or kin-group, or in some other capacity depends on whether he faces an immigration officer, a Pakistani, a Sikh or Moslem, a Bengali-speaker, and so on. There is no single platonic essence of Patel. He is all these and more at the same time.“

— Eric Hobsbawm

„Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.“

— Eric Hobsbawm

„As one would expect of tourists, they tried to find poverty colourful“

— Eric Hobsbawm
The Invention of Tradition

„The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and months electing its new leader. I think the Labour party should, for one thing, stress much more that for most people in the past 13 years, the period was not one of collapse into chaos but actually one where the situation improved, and particularly in areas such as schools, hospitals and a variety of other cultural achievements—so the idea that somehow or other it all needs to be taken down and ground into the dust is not valid. I think we need to defend what most people think basically needs defending and that is the provision of some form of welfare from the cradle to the grave.“

— Eric Hobsbawm

„The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.“

— Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World 1914-1991

„Economists who
simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first
instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies,
was to stick to financial orthodoxy, balance budgets and cut costs, were
visibly not making the situation better. Indeed, as the depression continued,
it was argued with considerable force not least by J. M. Keynes who
consequently became the most influential economist of the next forty
years - that they were making the depression worse. Those of us who
lived through the years of the Great Slump still find it almost impossible
to understand how the orthodoxies of the pure free market, then so
obviously discredited, once again came to preside over a global period of
depression in the late 1980s and 1990s, which, once again, they were
equally unable to understand or to deal with. Still, this strange phenomenon
should remind us of the major characteristic of history which it
exemplifies: the incredible shortness of memory of both the theorists and
practitioners of economics. It also provides a vivid illustration of society's
need for historians, who are the professional remembrancers of what their
fellow-citizens wish to forget.“

— Eric Hobsbawm

„Denied a Lenin and deprived of Napoleon, France retreated into the last and, we must hope, indestructible redoubt, the world of. The postwar vogue for Parisian thinkers barely concealed their collective retreat into Hexagonal introversion and into the ultimate fortress of French intellectuality, Cartesian theory and puns.“

— Eric Hobsbawm

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