Eric Hobsbawn
that some years behind it expatriates the left section of the Soviet PC, that counted on the participation of Leon Trtski, the creator of the Fourth International. He acted in diverse universities of the Europe and America, as visiting Professor and lecionou until retiring in the Birkbeck> College, of the University of London. It wrote some books, amongst them: The Age of the Revolutions, the Age of the Capital, the Primitive Age of the Empires, Rebels, the Workers and the worlds of the work, the English Revolution to the Imperialism, the Outlaws, the Echoes of Marseilles, On History, all published they in Brazil. The invitation of the Leaf of So Paulo, Company of Letras and Diners Club, the historian visited Brazil, when it was some days in the city of Paraty, Rio De Janeiro and gave a lecture in the Masp in So Paulo. To analyze the contribution of Hobsbawm for the Historiografia is not so simple task as it seems, pra who is entering the ample and including universe of History now, over all for the extensive list of Workmanships for it written; perhaps this demands a bigger contact with the same ones, pra that if it analyzes its value detidamente; but, the thick way, accurately therefore, can be deduced how much its participation in the briefing of historical facts and attempt of clarificar the movement has been valuable that exists in thinking to write on the historical processes. According to it proper express in the preface of its book: On History, its historical boarding is Marxist, and for it, without Marx would not have developed no special interest for history; they had been Marx and the fields of activity of the young marxist radicals that had supplied its subjects of research and had influenced the way as it wrote on them. In article published for the Lauro Foundation Fields, in 21 of October of 2008, of the authorship of Marcelo Musto, that discourses on the Crisis of the Capitalism and the present time of Marx, Hobsbawm professor he affirms that Marx is, and he will continue being one of the great philosophical minds, one of the great economic analysts of century XIX, and in its maximum expression, a master of one chats gotten passionate.
For Hobsbawm, History is not a simple description of facts occurred 0ccasionally in the experience human being, but the possibility to understand the problems characterize that it and which must be the conditions for its solution. It is to make a positive reflection of as observing of our time ‘ ‘ for it, the craft of the historians is to remember what the others forget, what consequentemente becomes them of basic importance in the construction of the experience human being. According to he himself assevera in the preface of the book ‘ ‘ It was of the Extremos’ ‘ , the main task of the historian is not to judge, but to understand, exactly what we have more difficulty to understand. In interview granted to the Leaf of So Paulo, in 30 of September of 2007, when questioned on the affirmation that made in preface of its book: ‘ ‘ Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism’ ‘ 1914-1991.
The writers who had created works involving the technique had focused the emotional and psychological processes that happened in the mind of the personages, amongst them we can cite Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. 4. Virginia author Woolf (1882? 1941) Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882, in the city of London. The eminence of its father, Sir Leslie Stephen, as publisher, critic and bigrafo, made with that Virginia and its brothers grew in an environment influenced for Victorian literary society (1837? 1901, reigned of the Queen Victory of the United kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland). After the death of the father, in 1904, Virginia if moved for Bloomsbury, in the central area of London, and came to know the intellectuals who would come to form ‘ ‘ group of Bloomsbury’ ‘ a group of intellectuals, philosophers and writers who promoted informal quarrels on literature, aesthetic, critical, economy, feminism, pacifism and sexuality.
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