John Wyon Burrow

John Burrow

An analysis of the study of the past and its implications in the Western world, from ancient times to the present day, looks at the work of individual historians and how they presented the past in terms of their perspectives, beliefs, and historical perio

Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century

A History of Histories

El libro forma parte de una ambiciosa colección sobre la cultura europea auspiciada por Yale University Press y que será publicada por Crítica en su totalidad. Este volumen acota el período de 1848 a 1914 (desde las revoluciones burguesas y el origen de la modernidad hasta el estallido de la Gran Guerra y de las vanguardias europeas), que estudia a partir de una serie de temas básicos desde los que explicar las tendencias y tensiones de casi un siglo de cultura europea: la relación entre cultura y ciencia, el nacionalismo y la modernidad, las construcciones y los desafíos planteados a la idea de sujeto. Una admirable síntesis de la modernidad, en la que historia, política, sociedad, arte, literatura y filosofía van de la mano en una perspectiva de conjunto.

La crisis de la razón

Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative, he gathers together over 2,500 years of the moments and decisions that have helped create Western identity. This unique approach is an incredible lens with which to view the past. Standing alone in its ambition, scale and fascination, Burrow's history of history is certain to stand the test of time.

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