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Eric Hobsbawm, né le 9 juin 1917 à Alexandrie et mort le 1er octobre 2012 à Londres, est un historien britannique.

Membre à partir de 1936 du Parti communiste de Grande-Bretagne, il collabora jusqu'en 1991 à la revue Marxism Today. Il a beaucoup travaillé sur la question des nations et des nationalismes en Europe au XIXe siècle et au XXe siècle ainsi que sur l'invention des traditions par les nations. Hobsbawm a introduit la notion de « Long XIXe siècle »,, pour qualifier la période allant de 1789 à 1914 , période marquée par des conflits issus de la Révolution. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. juin 1917 – 1. octobre 2012   •   Autres noms Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm
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“Pour qui a grandi à une époque où, à travers la pop musique – en concert comme dans les enregistrements, on n'entend plus que des sons d'origine électronique ou mécanique; où n'importe quel enfant peut faire des arrêts sur image ou repasser un extrait sonore ou visuel comme on peut relire certains passages d'un texte, où l'illusion théâtrale ne pèse plus grand-chose en comparaison de ce que permettent les technologies dans les spots publicitaires, il n'est guère possible de se faire une idée de la perception linéaire ou séquentielle simple qui était de règle avant que la technologie de pointe ne permît de parcourir en quelques secondes tout l'éventail des chaînes de télévision.”

Eric Hobsbawm livre L'Âge des extrêmes

L'Âge des extrêmes, 1994

“On n'a aucune peine à montrer ce que les écoles de pensée et les caprices de la mode en économie doivent à l'air du temps et au débat idéologique.”

Eric Hobsbawm livre L'Âge des extrêmes

L'Âge des extrêmes, 1994

“Le traditionalisme et le socialisme s'accordaient à détecter l'espace moral béant au cœur du libéralisme capitaliste, économique et politique, qui détruisait tous les liens entre les individus, hormis ceux qui reposaient sur la "propension au troc", chère à Adam Smith, et la poursuite de leurs satisfactions et intérêts personnels. En tant que système moral, manière de définir la place des êtres humains dans le monde, reconnaître la nature et l'ampleur des destructions opérées par le "développement" et le "progrès", les idéologies et systèmes de valeurs pré ou non capitalistes étaient souvent supérieurs au croyances qu'apportaient avec eux les canonnières, les marchands, les missionnaires et les administrateurs coloniaux.”

Eric Hobsbawm livre L'Âge des extrêmes

L'Âge des extrêmes, 1994

Eric Hobsbawm: Citations en anglais

“The world that went to pieces at the end of the 1980's was the world shaped by the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917.”

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Eric Hobsbawm livre L'Âge des extrêmes

The Age of Extremes (1992)

“no groups of populations welcomed the opening of the career of talent to whatever kind more passionately than those minorities who had hitherto been disbarred not merely because they were not well-born, but because they suffered official and collective discrimination.”

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Source: The Age of Revolution (1962), Chapter 10, A Career Open to Talent

“The destruction of the past, or rather of the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century.”

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Introduction, The Century: A Bird's Eye View
The Age of Extremes (1992)

“It was the tragedy of modernist artists, Left or Right, that the much more effective political commitment of their own mass movements and politicians - not to mention their adversaries - rejected them. With the partial exception of Futurist-influenced Italian fascism, the new authoritarian regimes of both Right and Left preferred old-fashioned and gigantic monumental buildings and vistas in architecture, inspirational representations in both painting and sculpture, elaborate performances of the classics on stage, and ideological acceptability in literature.”

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The Arts 1914-1945
The Age of Extremes (1992)

“In the simplest terms the question who or what caused the Second World War can be answered in two words: Adolf Hitler.”

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Source: The Age of Extremes (1992), p. 36 <Ref> https://libcom.org/files/Eric%20Hobsbawm%20-%20Age%20Of%20Extremes%20-%201914-1991.pdf</ref>

“However, mass expulsion and even genocide began to make their appearance on the southern margins of Europe during and after World War I, as the Turks set about the mass extirpation of the Armenians in 1915 and, after the Greco Turkish war of 1911, expelled between 1.3 and 1.5 millions of Greeks from Asia Minor, where they had lived since the days of Homer.1 Subsequently Adolph Hitler, who was in this respect a logical Wilsonian nationalist, arranged to transfer Germans not living on the territory of the fatherland, such as those of Italian South Tyrol, to Germany itself, as he also arranged for the permanent elimination of the Jews.”

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Source: Nations and nationalism since 1780 programme, myth, reality (1992), p. 133.

“In terms of political geography, The French Revolution ended the European Middle Ages.”

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Source: The Age of Revolution (1962), Chapter 4, War

“The cultural revolution of the later twentieth century can thus best be understood as the triumph of the individual over society, or rather, the breaking of the threads which in the past had woven human beings into social textures. For such textures had consisted not only of the actual relations between human beings and their forms of organization but also of the general models of such relations and the texted patterns of people's behaviour towards each other; their roles were prescribed, though not always written. Hence the often traumatic insecurity when older conventions of behaviour were either overturned or lost their rationale, or the incomprehension between those who felt this loss and those too young to have known anything but anomic society.”

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Source: The Age of Extremes (1992), Chapter Eleven, Cultural Revolution, p. 335

“The tragedy of the October revolution was precisely that it could only produce its kind of ruthless, brutal, command socialism.”

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Eric Hobsbawm livre L'Âge des extrêmes

Source: The Age of Extremes (1992), Chapter Sixteen, End of Socialism

“Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.”

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Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict http://books.google.co.in/books?id=4aECmbMMzIYC&pg=PA41 (1999), p. 41.

“The really frightening risk of war was neglect, filth, poor organization, defective medical services, and hygenic ignorance, which conditions (as in the troops) practically everybody.”

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Source: The Age of Revolution (1962), Chapter 4, War

“[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist… Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.”

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Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality http://books.google.com/books?id=OHz70fY8t2UC&lpg=PA12&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 2012), p. 12.
Nations and nationalism since 1780 programme, myth, reality (1992)

“First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.”

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Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries http://books.google.com/books?id=sCK8AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q=&f=false (1971), p. 60.

“'Europe' had been on the defensive for a millennium. Now, for half a millennium, it conquered the world. Both observations make it impossible to sever European history from world history.”

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Chap. 17 : The Curious History of Europe
On History (1997)

“Having established the limits beyond which partisanship ceases to be scientifically legitimate, let me argue the case in favour of legitimate partisanship, both from the point of view of the scientific or scholarly discipline and from that of the cause to which the scholar feels committed.”

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Chap. 9 : Partisanship
On History (1997)

“History as inspiration and ideology has a built-in tendency to become self-justifying myth. Nothing is a more dangerous blindfold than this, as the history of modern nations and nationalisms demonstrates.”

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Chap. 3 : What Can History Tell Us about Contemporary Society?
On History (1997)

“The past is therefore a permanent dimension of the human consciousness, an inevitable component of the institutions, values and other patterns of human society. The problem for historians is to analyse the nature of this 'sense of the past' in society and to trace its changes and transformations.”

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Chap. 2 : The Sense of the Past
On History (1997)

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