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Lies, Passions, and Illusions (Hardcover)
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Lies, Passions, and Illusions (Hardcover)
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Francois Furet needs little introduction. Widely considered one of
the leading historians of the French Revolution, he was a maverick
for his time, shining a critical light on the entrenched Marxist
interpretations that prevailed during the mid-twentieth century.
Shortly after his death in 1997, the New York Review of Books
called him "one of the most influential men in contemporary
France." Lies, Passions, and Illusions is a fitting capstone to
this celebrated author's oeuvre: a late-career conversation with
philosopher Paul Ricoeur on the twentieth century writ large, a
century of violence and turmoil, of unprecedented wealth and
progress, in which history advanced, for better or worse, in
quantum leaps. This conversation would be, sadly, Furet's last - he
died while Ricoeur was completing his edits. Ricoeur did not want
to publish his half without Furet's approval, so what remains is
Furet's alone, an astonishingly cohesive meditation on the
political passions of the twentieth century. With strokes at once
broad and incisive, he examines the many different trajectories
that nations of the West have followed over the past hundred years.
It is a dialogue with history as it happened but also as a form of
thought. It is a dialogue with his critics, with himself, and with
those major thinkers - from Tocqueville to Hannah Arendt - whose
ideas have shaped our understanding of the tragic dramas and
upheavals of the modern era. It is a testament to the crucial role
of the historian, a reflection on how history is made and lived,
and how the imagination is a catalyst for political change. Whether
new to Furet or deeply familiar with his work, readers will find
thought-provoking assessments on every page, a deeply moving look
back at one of the most tumultuous periods of history and how we
might learn and look forward from it.
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