Remembered past : John Lukacs on history, historians, and historical knowledge : a reader / edited by Mark G. Malvasi and Jeffrey O. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lukacs, John, 1924-2019.

Contributor:

Malvasi, Mark G., 1957-

Nelson, Jeffrey O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

History--Philosophy.

History.

History, Modern--20th century.

History, Modern.

Lukacs, John, 1924-2019.

Lukacs, John.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 922 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, ©2005.

Summary:

Among the most accomplished historians of his generation, John Lukacs has written more than twenty books and hundreds of essays and reviews. His scholarship encompasses the history of the modern age, focusing especially on the political, ideological, intellectual, and military struggles of the twentieth century. Integral to that project has been Lukacs's effort to clarify and interpret the evolution of thought and consciousness during the approximately 500 years that constitute "modern" history. As the modern age passes, as the institutions, ideas, values, and experiences that composed the life of the era recede and disappear, Lukacs has assumed the responsibility to "think about thinking." And for Lukacs, no aspect of thought is more important to understanding the modern age than the emergence of historical consciousness. Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge: A Reader draws together Lukacs's scattered and diverse writings on history. The volume serves at once as an introduction to this essential aspect of Lukacs's thought and an indispensable compendium of his most important writings on the subject. In the essays, reviews, commentaries, and book chapters collected in Remembered Past, Lukacs addresses the problem of historical knowledge, evaluates the contributions of historians and writers who have used, and often abused, history, and examines the significance of place in developing a sense of the past. He concludes with a consideration of the twentieth century and the task of reading, writing, and teaching history. Significantly, this authorized "reader" also includes a complete bibliography of Lukacs's writings through 2003.

Contents:

I. The problem of historical knowledge

1. The presence of historical thinking (2002)

2. About historical factors, or the hierarchy of powers (1968)

3. History and physics (1968)

4. Polite letters and Clio's fashions (1998)

5. American history : the terminological problem (1992)

6. The historiographical problem of belief and of believers : religious history in the democratic age (1978)

7. What is history? (2003)

8. Historical revisionism (1999)

II. Historians reviewed

9. George Bancroft (1961)

10. Page Smith (1965)

11. Oswald Spengler (1966)

12. George Kennan (1967)

13. Guy Chapman and Alistair Horne (1969)

14. Jacques Barzun (1975)

15. Charles-Olivier Carbonell (1977)

16. David Irving (1977)

17. William Appleman Williams (1980)

18. Jakob Burckhardt (1985)

19. Harold Nicolson (1985)

20. Alexis de Tocqueville (1988)

21. Henry Adams (1993)

22. Christopher Dawson (1993)

23. Paul W. Schroeder (1994)

24. Brigitte Hamann (1999)

25. Francois Furet (1999)

26. Gabriel Gorodetsky (1999)

27. Michael Burleigh (2001)

28. Lord Acton (2001)

29. Roy Jenkins (2001)

30. Winston Churchill (2002)

31. Klaus Larres (2003)

32. Richard M. Gamble (2004)

III. Dissenting opinions (or: a few other prosaists)

33. E.L. Doctorow (1975)

34. Isaiah Berlin and Leo Tolstoy (1980)

35. Hannah Arendt (1990)

36. Tom Wolfe (1988)

37. Whittaker Chambers (1989)

38. Francis Fukuyama and Graham Fuller (1992)

39. Ian Buruma (1999)

40. Arthur Koestler (2000)

41. Stephen E. Ambrose, Steve Neal, James C. Humes (2002)

42. Simone Weil (1990)

IV. Places and times

43. Budapest 1900 : colors, words, sounds (1988)

44. Philadelphia 1950 (1981)

45. In darkest Transylvania (1982)

46. Gasteinertal (1990)

47. A night at the Dresden Opera (1986)

48. Letter from Normandy (1995)

49. Three days in London : Churchill's funeral (1979)

50. Hitler's birthplace (1994)

V. Some twentieth-century questions

51. Questions about Pius XII (1964)

52. Halfway to 1984 (1966)

53. Questions about Roosevelt and the Second World War (1990)

54. Revising Joseph Goebbels (1988)

55. Hitler : the historical problem (1997)

56. The poverty of anticommunism (1999)

57. The problem of American conservatism (1984)

58. The elective monarchy (1984)

59. The bourgeois interior (1970)

60. Mechanic (2002)

VI. Reading, writing, and teaching history

61. Teaching (1990)

62. Writing (1990)

63. What is happening to history (1977)

64. Selections from A thread of years : 1901, 1945, 1968 (1998)

65. The great Gatsby? : yes, a historical novel (2001)

66. Agnes Repplier, writer and essayist (1981)

67. A student's guide to the study of history (2000)

Bibliography of the published writings of John Lukacs, 1947-2003.

Notes:

"Bibliography of the published writings of John Lukacs, 1947-2003": pages 783-832.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 833-894) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lukacs, John, 1924- Remembered past.

ISBN:

1932236279

9781932236279

1932236287

9781932236286

OCLC:

60557499

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