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Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man
Originally published in 1938, this book interprets modern Western history as a single 900-year period, initiated by total revolution, and punctuated thereafter by a series of total revolutions which broke out successively in the different European nations.
Hardcover
Published
December 1st 1993
by Berg Publishers
(first published August 1st 1993)
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy was a prophetic polymath. A German academic who fought in WWI, immigrated to America, and taught for nearly 40 years. He's one of those guys who seems to know everything: history, theology, political theory, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, etc. And he weaves it all together in this highly interpretive history of the great revolutions that rocked Europe from the 12th century to the 20th, the results of which are now woven into our modern culture. It is literally shocki
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What a book! What a excursion! What a harmony of rabbit trails! What a symphony of I know not what! The book was amazing, frustrating, and has sent me don't so many visions of history's patterns that I feel quite dizzy. Rosenstock-Huessy's goal is to right the theme of the last thousand year as revolution. From the millennium’s first revolution in the heart of the pope against the Holy Roman Emperor (in Hildebrand 900s) to the climax of revolutions in WWI (1914).
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What a book! What a excursion! What a harmony of rabbit trails! What a symphony of I know not what! The book was amazing, frustrating, and has sent me don't so many visions of history's patterns that I feel quite dizzy. Rosenstock-Huessy's goal is to right the theme of the last thousand year as revolution. From the millennium’s first revolution in the heart of the pope against the Holy Roman Emperor (in Hildebrand 900s) to the climax of revolutions in WWI (1914).
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Really interesting and a little weird. This is ERH's trademark work. Don't suppress its Hegelianism.
This is one of the most unique and important works of historiography written.
A must read!
A must read!
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“To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.”
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“Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.”
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