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"A remarkable autobiography… Mr. Hosbawm is of that generation of pioneering British cultural historians who united behind a simple belief History should not be written exclusively by and for the winners."—The New York Observer"Hobsbawm portrays a turbulent world of frontier-crossing and meetings in back rooms in Berlin, of refugees and resistance fighters, Yugoslav partisans and death camp survivors, louche poets and secret agents courageous Communists and squalid betrayals."—The Nation"The popular people's historian who has influenced our understanding of the previous three centuries like no other."—The Boston Globe
Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende
Eric Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917 and educated in Austria, Germany and England. He taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, and then at the New School for Social Research in New York. In addition to The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empire and The Age of Extremes, his books include Bandits, Revolutionaries, Uncommon People, and his memoir Interesting Times. Eric Hobsbawm died in 2012.
Produktinformation
Taschenbuch: 448 Seiten
Verlag: The New Press; Auflage: Revised ed. (16. Mai 2005)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1565849655
ISBN-13: 978-1565849655
Größe und/oder Gewicht:
15,9 x 3,2 x 22,9 cm
Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung:
4.1 von 5 Sternen
2 Kundenrezensionen
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Nr. 3.072.826 in Fremdsprachige Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Fremdsprachige Bücher)
If you want to understand both the craft of historiography and history in the making, you should read this well written book by one of the great historians of recent times. It`s much more than a simple memoir of an interesting life, it`s an inspired reflection on profound historical changes as experienced and witnessed by one who lived through most of the twentieth century, and indeed, survived it...
Hobsbawm's story is that of so many other "Mitteleuropean" Jews who made stunning careers in British or US Academia. What makes it also representative of his generation is that he shed religion to embrace wholeheartedly another religion: marxism. It is irritating to read how such an intelligent man could be so uncritical and naive towards communism and the USSR, always following the "party line" and believing in Karl Marx the Almighty and the Redeemer of all the world's evils. In retrospect it reads like continuously fighting lost battles now that communism has become almost irrelevant. Not that capitalism in its current form was any better.
In many ways the memoirs of a great observer can prove to be more interesting than a great actor or mover of events. Taking an almost godlike view on the immense historical events that constituted this great historian’s life, Eric Hobsbawm takes us on the long journey through his encounter with the twentieth century. Beginning in profound poverty in Vienna, Hobsbawm reveals the many tragedies that accompanied his early childhood, and takes us to his immersion in politics and historical research. With tremendous liveliness he takes us to the extraordinary years of Germany in the 1930s, and reflects on his absolute commitments to building an international communist movement. From Germany to Kings College and beyond, Hobsbawm became perhaps the most devoted, and clearly one of the most knowledgeable historical materialists of recent times. This text accounts the innumerable professional, political, and cultural allegiances that would define his fascinating story. For those looking for a deeper, perhaps more psychological accounting of his own political obduracy in refusing to leave the communist party, readers will perhaps be somewhat disappointed. Still, from the small, though wonderful encounters (such as a night with E.M Forster to see Lenny Bruce) to the massive upheavals of May ’68, Hobsbawm reveals the rich details of a life fully lived, and does so with the empirical attentiveness of that he brought to his research.
For prospective readers of "Interesting Times", the author requires no introduction. Having stated that, presumably fans (or critics) will be interested in three aspects of his very long career as a "Marxist" historian: 1) Why did Hobsbawm become a Marxist in the first place, 2) Why, after the collapse of the Soviet system and the subsequent discrediting of the Marxist cannon, did Hobsbawm stick with the program and finally, 3) What tangible difference did Marxism make in the author's personal history. In brief, this biography addresses all three questions. It does so adequately, relatively comprehensively but in a somewhat flat and humorless fashion.Hobsbawm lived a long time and, as the double entendre title of the autobiography suggests, he lived in a tumultuous era: the rise of fascism/Nazism, the triumph and demise of the Soviet "socialist" system and the emergence of the capitalist "consumer society". Not surprisingly given his social milieu (a Jewish "intellectual", as he consistently refers to himself living in central Europe and Germany during the early 20th century), Hobsbawm was attracted to the secular ideology at the antipodes of Nazism: Communism. That attraction is easily grasped and logically accepted. What happens subsequently is perhaps a bit less palatable: Hobsbawm, instead of actively fighting Nazism as a communist militant or a resistance fighter elides the problem and takes refuge in academia. This move is redolent of the stink associated with many "fellow traveler" Marxists of that time period and it extended well into the second half of the century. It is best encapsulated in the pithy epigram, "Talk Left and Live Right" and that's just what Eric did. Yes, he showed up at a few demonstrations and was a member of the Party but he did not enlist in any army (he had a brief stint in the British Armed Services on the home front, which he depicts as a bit of a romp in the fashion of the "McAuslan" stories (of George MacDonald Fraser).As the sorry facts about the USSR under Stalin emerged, Hobsbawm somehow reconciled them with continuing his membership in the Party. Evidently, at least as he depicts this decision in the book, this continued affinity for the Party was based on some sentimental construct rather than a fanatic commitment to the ideology. A faint undertone of elitism runs through the entire autobiography, but it emerges most strongly here. Certainly, he did not undergo the self-scrutiny of an Orwell or a Koestler. He was a bit troubled by the Soviet invasion of Hungary and a bit disconcerted by Soviet actions during the Czech crisis but...not awfully so. In fact, he continued to summer near the Hotel Portmeirion (the bizarre set for "The Prisoner" TV series) on the estate of the eccentric and wealthy Clough Williams-Ellis in Northamptonshire. Yes, Hobsbawm did sympathize with the Welsh nationalists who wanted his summer home, but he was irked by nationalism thus manifest (he appeared quite piqued at a few points). Aside from the personal inconvenience, nationalism did not mesh with Marxism.One of the most jarring disclosures came during the tumultuous Sixties. The Francophile Hobsbawm was "shocked" (I say!!) by the May, 1968 student uprisings and, failing to discern a finely hewn ideological motive for the upset and slightly affronted by the solopsism of the movement (he pointedly references Henri Cartier-Besson's picture of an elderly French burger examining a graffito "Jeuissez sans entraves") he becomes a bit huffy and dismissive of the "New Left". One could, at this point, invoke Tom Wolfe ("Mau Mauing the Flack Catchers"), Sartre or Herbert Marcusse but Hobsbawm was a bit too tone deaf to pick up on this aspect of his Eisenhower-era social attitudes. In short, aside from the cachet of being a "Marxist" of long standing and persevering despite "the odds", the only tangible difference Marxism made for Hobsbawm was to provide a general framework upon which his excellent histories could be hung.As with any good biography or autobiography, unintentional insights into the subject are revealed. Thusly in "Interesting Times". Hobsbawm's career as a major historian aside, the book reveals him as a bit of a hypocrite. True, not every "communist"; not every party member; not every "Marxist historian" need rush to the barricades to fight against "the machine". But, to preserve at least a veneer of integrity, it pays to either act the part or contribute "according to your ability and take according to your needs" as the axiom states. Hobsbawm may have done both, but the aura of smug remove and the cozy refuge in the academy tends to tarnish the aura a bit. Hobsbawm comes across more as "Lucky Jim" (Kingsley Amis) than Che, I'm afraid.
Wonderful writing! I learned about the past century and about Mr. Hobsbawm's life which was intricately tied up in the events and politics of his time. It left me planning to read his celebrated earlier histories.I'm taking off one star because of the physical book itself. I bought the paperback published by Abacus, an imprint of Little, Brown, ISBN 9780349113531, which completely omitted the second section of illustrations (8 pages) that appear in the hardback edition published by Pantheon. Be forewarned!
I approached Eric's Hobsbawm's autobiography with some relish. His background is truly fascinating and his views often contrary to the mainstream. His long term membership of the British Communist Party certainly places him within a very small group by any measure.However, I must admit that I was often disappointed in Hobsbawm's work. There were large sections of pontificating rather than him outlining the so-called interesting times in which he lived. And let there be on mistake, Hobsbawm did live in interesting times. He was born in the year of the Russian Revolution to an Austrian mother and British father who were both Jews in Vienna during the dying days of the Hapsburg Empire. His early education was in Vienna while his later education was in Britain where he ultimately went on to study at Cambridge. Throughout his life, he travelled widely and truly met many interesting people. Thus, my only concern with his book is that his interesting life can sometimes play second fiddle to his opinions. But perhaps this is always the way with historians. They are here to interpret the world and not simply narrate.Read Hobsbawm's work for an opinion on the twentieth century but not have expectations that you are going to read a tour de force of the century's movers and shakers.
This is a very interesting book, telling the (mainly) intellectual story of a British Jewish boy, growing up in Vienna and Berlin, before going back to GB and London for obvious reason in late adolescence and growing up to be one of the best-known historians of his time without renegging on his Marxist convictions, and all the while criticizing USSR... Well worth reading, but maybe a hundred pages too long
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