Herbert Butterfield
Herbert Butterfield
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Zusammenfassung
Described as a profound and prolific writer who made important contributions as both a public and academic historian, Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) is portrayed in this biography as having profoundly shaped American and European historiography by highlighting the distortions that occur when historians interpret the past merely as steps along the way toward the glorious present.
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Herbert Butterfield by Kenneth B Mcintyre
'The most original historian of his generation' That is how the celebrated British academic Noel Annan described Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979), a profound and prolific writer who made important contributions as both a public and academic historian. In this authoritative and accessible intellectual biography, Kenneth B. McIntyre explores the extraordinary range of Butterfield's work. He shows why the small book The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) achieved such large influence; Butterfield, he demonstrates, has profoundly shaped American and European historiography by highlighting the distortions that occur when historians interpret the past merely as steps along the way toward the glorious present. But McIntyre delves much deeper, examining everything from Butterfield's lectures on history, historiography, and Christianity, to his warnings about the dangers of hubris in international affairs, to his essays on the origins of modern science, which basically created the modern discipline of the history of science. This latest volume in ISI Books' acclaimed Library of Modern Thinkers helps us understand a prescient and insightful thinker who challenged dominant currents in history, historiography, international relations, and politics.
Kenneth B. McIntyre is an assistant professor at Concordia University in Montreal, teaching political philosophy and the history of political thought. He is the author of The Limits of Political Theory: Oakeshott's Philosophy of Civil Association and has written for a range of scholarly and popular publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781935191544 |
| ISBN 10 | 1935191543 |
| Titel | Herbert Butterfield |
| Autor | Kenneth B Mcintyre |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Regnery Publishing Inc |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2011-11-30 |
| Seitenanzahl | 288 |
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