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Lies, Passions, and Illusions
Francois Furet
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Description for Lies, Passions, and Illusions
hardcover. With strokes at once broad and incisive, this book examines the many different trajectories that nations of the West have followed over the past hundred years. It features a testament to the crucial role of the historian, a reflection on how history is made and lived, and how the imagination is a catalyst for political change. Translator(s): Furet, Deborah. Num Pages: 128 pages, 1 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 137 x 185 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
Francois Furet needs little introduction. Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, he was a maverick for his time, shining a critical light on the entrenched Marxist interpretations that prevailed during the mid-twentieth century. Shortly after his death in 1997, the New York Review of Books called him "one of the most influential men in contemporary France." Lies, Passions, and Illusions is a fitting capstone to this celebrated author's oeuvre: a late-career conversation with philosopher Paul Ricoeur on the twentieth century writ large, a century of violence and turmoil, of unprecedented wealth and progress, in which ... Read more
Francois Furet needs little introduction. Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, he was a maverick for his time, shining a critical light on the entrenched Marxist interpretations that prevailed during the mid-twentieth century. Shortly after his death in 1997, the New York Review of Books called him "one of the most influential men in contemporary France." Lies, Passions, and Illusions is a fitting capstone to this celebrated author's oeuvre: a late-career conversation with philosopher Paul Ricoeur on the twentieth century writ large, a century of violence and turmoil, of unprecedented wealth and progress, in which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226114491
SKU
V9780226114491
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About Francois Furet
Francois Furet (1927 - '97) was professor at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His many works include Interpreting the French Revolution, The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century, and In the Workshop of History, the latter ... Read more
Reviews for Lies, Passions, and Illusions
"An intellectual and political testament." (Le Spectacle du Monde) "A ghost talks to us of other ghosts, and all of it seems only too present, and even prophetic." (Les Influences)"