Eric Hobsbawm – historik mezi vědou a politikou

• Authors: Jiří Lach

Title variants

EN

Eric Hobsbawm – Historian between Scholarship and Politics

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was a British historian of Jewish origin recognized worldwide. This article traces several topics which were central for Hobsbawm as a man and a scholar. It deals with Hobsbawm’s relations to Communism as a political ideology and Marxism as a method of examining the historical process. Both these relations are reflected significantly in his extensive work which focuses primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries. Hobsbawm also excelled in popularizing the topics in modern history for the general public. The main issues studied by Hobsbawm included social classes, revolution, nation and nationalism, or the history of common people. Although the reflection of his work in Czech, or Czechoslovak, historiography was not quite wide, some Czech historians (especially Miroslav Hroch) did study Hobsbawm’s ideas.

Keywords

EN

Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012); Marxist historiography; history and politics; Hobsbawm and Czech historiography

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 111
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 579-602

Contributors

author

Jiří Lach

• Katedra politologie a evropských studií, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci, Křížkovského 12, 771 80 Olomouc, Czech Republic