History and the Present: A Discussion with Eelco Runia

Eclectic Intellection

English - March 15, 2020 18:30 - 1 hour - 62.8 MB
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This discussion focuses on Eelco Runia's book Moved by the Past: Discontinuity and Historical Mutation, which was published in 2014 by Columbia University Press. We also talked about Tolstoy's War and Peace, and more broadly about the connections between history and the present.