Intelectuales y revolución

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Sucesos como la elección de nuevo Presidente en los Estados Unidos o los intentos de reforma en la Unión Soviética, con su acompañamiento de tensiones y crisis, acaparan en la actualidad la atención de los medios informativos: las decisiones de los dos grandes nos afectan a todos. En este libro se explica cómo, cuándo y por qué se dividió el mundo en los dos grandes bloques que hoy existen.

A partir del análisis de las alteraciones ocurridas en el uso y significado de los conceptos, la escuela de “historia de los conceptos” se propuso alumbrar transformaciones históricas más vastas de larga duración, y especialmente el sentido de la mutación cultural que se produjo entre 1750 y 1850 (período que para Koselleck marca la emergencia de la modernidad). Por debajo de tan monumental obra subyace una teoría de la historia o Historik, a la que dicho autor define como una “doctrina de las condiciones de posibilidad de historias”. Los que aquí se presentan son textos...