The test of a life: an Eric Hobsbawm profile
Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Aldo Agosti
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/82
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 115-140 File size 338 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2011-082007
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The test of a life: an Eric Hobsbawm profile takes a look at the figure of Eric Hobsbawm, retracing the main stages of his intellectual biography: from his middle- European background to his university education in Cambridge; from his involvement with the Communist Party to his studies of social banditry and the British working class; from his particular and original blend of Marxism to his analyses of capitalism and the concept of revolution (in the four volumes of Ages); from an evaluation of his work as an historian of society and culture to the reasons for his influence on contemporary historiography.
Keywords: Eric Hobsbawm, biography, historiography, Marxism, social history, cultural history
Aldo Agosti, Il test di una vita: profilo di Eric Hobsbawm in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 82/2011, pp 115-140, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2011-082007