Social Science: Selections from Twentieth-Century Anthropology, History, and Sociology
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“There is not a more dangerous tendency in history than that of representing the past, as if it were a rational whole and dictated by clearly defined interests.” (Page 282)
“A present-day reader, studying the history of the Middle Ages based on official documents, will never sufficiently realize the extreme excitability of the medieval soul. The picture drawn mainly from official records, though they may be the most reliable sources, will lack one element: that of the vehement passion possessing princes and peoples alike.” (Page 250)
“It is the most elemental economic fact that the way in which the disposition over material property is distributed among a plurality of people, meeting competitively in the market for the purpose of exchange, in itself creates specific life chances.” (Page 135)
“In writing the history of the house of Burgundy, the leitmotiv should constantly keep before our minds the spirit of revenge. Nobody, of course, will now seek the explanation of the whole conflict of power and interests, whence proceeded the secular struggle between France and the house of Austria, in the family feud between Orléans and Burgundy. All sorts of causes of a general nature—political, economic, ethnographic—have contributed to the genesis of that great conflict. But we should never forget that the apparent origin of it, and the central motive dominating it, was, to the men of the fifteenth century and even later, the thirst for revenge.” (Page 250)
“But to understand the sentiment of the age itself, one should look for the avowed and conscious political ideas. There can be no doubt that no other political motive could be better understood by the people than the primitive motives of hatred and vengeance.” (Page 250)
- Title: Social Science: Selections from Twentieth-Century Anthropology, History, and Sociology
- Authors: James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 58
- Publishers: Encyclopedia Britannica, Robert P. Gwinn
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Social sciences; History; Anthropology
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW58
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:53Z