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Hughes, Henry Stuart was born on May 7, 1916 in New York City. Son of Charles Evans Junior and Marjory (Stuart) Hughes.
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Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974
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The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassani--six Italian prose writers of Jewish or part-Jewish origin--and gracefully shows how these writers combine in various measures their ancestral Jewish heritage with recent experiences of antisemitic persecution.
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The Obstructed Path: French Social Thought in the Years of Desperation 1930-1960
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The years of political and social despair in France-from the great depression through the Nazi occupation, Resistance, and liberation, to the Algerian War-forced French intellectuals to rethink the values of their culture. Their faltering attempts to break out of a psychological impasse are the subject of this thoughtful and compassionate book by a distinguished American historian. In this first treatment of contemporary French thought to bridge philosophy, literature, and social science and to show its relation to comparable thinking in Germany, Britain, and the United States. Hughes also assesses the work of other writers in terms of their emotional biography and role in society. Hughes found those who struggled to find meaning and purpose amid chaos to be among the most brilliant minds of their century. They included the social historians Bloch and Febvre; the Catholic philosophers Maritain and Marcel; the proponents of heroism Martin du Gard, Bernanos, Saint-Exupery, Malraux, and DeGaulle; and the phenomenologists Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. They also included the strangely assorted trio of Camus, Teilhard de Chardin, and Levi-Strauss, who showed the way to a wider cultural community. Yet in nearly every case these scholars achieved something quite different from what they set out to do. For this self-questioning generation, the interchange between history and anthropology became most compelling and of greatest interest to the world outside. The Obstructed Path blends H. Stuart Hughes' concern for the many ways in which historians define and practice their craft, his lifelong interest in literature, his fascination with the influence of Marx and Freud, and his empathy with the varieties of Christian thought. It also demonstrates his delicate grasp of singular personalities such as Bernanos, Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre and Levi-Strauss. His profound insight into the flaws of many elaborate philosophical constructions, and into the core of deep emotions, bold images, and searing passions that were often hidden in them, bring us close to these thinkers and makes this an enduring work.
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The Obstructed Path
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The United States and Italy (The Norton library. History)
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The Obstructed Path: French Social Thought in the Years of Desperation, 1930-1960 New edition by Hughes, H. Stuart (2001) Paperback
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Consciousness and Society
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H. Stuart Hughes was perhaps the greatest chronicler of the modern intellectual history of Europe. His monumental work, Consciousness and Society, was a benchmark. The original publication of the book marks the first time an author undertook with such power or so broad a scope the canvas used by the generation of 1890's Europe. When it was first published, Consciousness and Society was greeted with much respect and admiration. It still affects the way historians and political theorists approach their work. Hughes' ideas, and the way they are expressed in Consciousness and Society, have become paradigms of twentieth-century scholarship. In dealing with the changing social thought after 1890 in Europe, Hughes covers a wide array of thinkers and issues in a scholarly, yet graceful manner. His is a study of the "cluster of genius" of Europe at that time: Croce, Durkheim, Freud, Weber, and Nietzsche, as well as other great European minds. The book explores questions that are still relevant in today's society: Is the separation of facts and values tenable, or even desirable? Can rationality accommodate the ideas of a Bergson or a Freud? Is there, or should there be, a relationship between science and religion? And does history have any ultimate meaning for later generations? Consciousness and Society was the first of a trilogy, the latter two being The Obstructed Path and The Sea Change. While the subsequent studies are also groundbreaking and significant works, it was Consciousness and Society that established Hughes' rank in the field of intellectual history. Hughes approaches his subjects, as he later did with pertinent issues of the twentieth-century, with both reason and compassion. This edition includes an elegant new introduction by the distinguished political scientist Stanley Hoffmann.
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Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent, 1968-1987 (Studies in Cultural History)
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Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels, Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968 suppressions in Prague and Paris: dissenters learned their lesson and began to pursue their goals in patient, realistic, limited fashion, eschewing violence and inflammatory ideological rhetoric. Yet theirs were the voices protesting what even conformists recognize as social evils; the manipulative routine of bureaucratic authority, public and private; the soullessness of life in the sprawling conurbations European cities have become; the deadening of sensibility that allows us to screen out from consciousness the possibility of nuclear war. Hughes takes up in turn the innovations in dissidence during a reactionary age: the foreign workers, especially Moslems, who flooded the more prosperous countries of Europe in the 1970s, creating a large underclass; the advocates of local cultural autonomy, such as the Welsh and Bretons; the independent-minded theologians Hans Küng and Edward Schillebeeckx and Leonardo Boff arrayed against Pope John Paul II, who was himself rebelling against a dilution of Catholic theology; Poland's Solidarity and with it the longing for reunification of a sundered continent; the frustration of Soviet dissent, from the hope of Khrushchev's "thaw' to the sufferings of Sakharov; the collapse of Eurocommunism and the falterings of democratic socialism; and the slow advance of the German Greens toward a society on a human scale. Although European dissent, with the exception of the Greens, has failed to shake the hold of conservative rule, Hughes believes the subject matter of dissent--notably the protest against the nuclear menace--has lost none of its timeliness for the century ahead, and the dissenters themselves face the future with both stoicism and hope. Serving as markers throughout the route are brief analyses of the relevance of novelists and social critics, among them Milan Kundera, Adam Michnik, Yuri Trifonov, Roy Medvedev, and Jürgen Habermas.
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Between Commitment and Disillusion: The Obstructed Path and The Sea Change, 1930–1965
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Oswald Spengler
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Since its publication in 1918, Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West has been the object of academic controversy and opprobrium. In their efforts to dispose of it, scholars have resorted to a variety of tactics: bitter invective, icy scorn, urbane mockery, or simply pretending that the book is not there. Yet generations of readers have refused to be warned off, finding in Spengler a prophetic voice and a source of profound intellectual excitement. H. Stuart Hughes’s Oswald Spengler offers a judicious and objective reading of Spengler’s works that admirably fills the gap between hypercritical invective and naïve enthusiasm. This pioneering volume makes clear why Spengler’s pessimistic reading of the fate of European civilization continues to resonate with contemporary anxieties. Despite the author’s self-imposed intellectual and social isolation, Spengler’s work was as Hughes demonstrates, a part of the enormous effort of intellectual reevaluation that has characterized the early twentieth century. Viewing Spengler in the broadest possible perspective, the author places his thought in its cultural relationship to that of such predecessors as Giambattista Vico, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Nikolai Danilevsky and contemporaries including Benedetto Croce, Henri Bergson, and Vilfredo Pareto. A chapter of Hughes’s book is devoted to Spengler’s influence on later cyclical thinkers such as Arnold Toynbee and Pitirim Sorokin. Another chapter clarifies the essentially antagonistic relationship between his thought and Nazi ideology. Throughout, Hughes is carefully attuned to the complex and often bewildering shifts of Spengler’s ideas and manner, providing a unified picture of the sober historian; the lofty seer; the cool, detached observer; and the impassioned participant. In his introduction to this new edition, Hughes comments on the timeliness of Spengler’s message with respect to technology and environmental issues and draws some unexpected and fascinating parallels between Spengler’s thought and that of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Oswald Spengler offers an illuminating view of the achievements and limitations of one of the most influential and representative figures of the twentieth century. It will be of concern to intellectual historians, philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists.
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- The Obstructed Path: French Social Thought in the Years of Desparation (TB 1451)
- Between Commitment and Disillusion: The Obstructed Path and The Sea Change, 1930-1965 by H. Stuart Hughes (1987-12-01)
- Consciousness and Society by Hughes, H. Stuart(June 11, 2002) Paperback (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- History as Art and as Science: Twin Vistas on the Past (Midway Reprint Series) ("Professor Hughes offers an earnest warning: 'U...)
- Oswald Spengler
- Consciousness and Society by H. Stuart Hughes (2002-06-11) (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974 (The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines ...)
- Consciousness and Society The Reorientation of European Social Thought 1890-1930
- History as Art and as Science: Twin Vistas on the Past (Midway Reprint Series) by H. Stuart Hughes (1975-12-15) (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- The sea change: The migration of social thought, 1930-1965 (McGraw-Hill paperback)
Henry Stuart Hughes
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, Amherst College, 1937; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Amherst College, 1967; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1938; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1940.
Career
Chief division research for Europe, unites states department State, 1946-1948; assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1948-1952; professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957-1969; Gurney professor of history and political science, Harvard University, 1969-1975; associate professor, Stanford (California) U., 1952-1955; professor, Stanford (California) U., 1955-1956; professor, University of California, San Diego, 1975-1986; professor emeritus, University of California, San Diego, since 1986. Visiting member Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1950. Bacon exchangeprof. U. Paris, 1967.
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The Obstructed Path: French Social Thought in the Years of Desperation 1930-1960
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History as Art and as Science: Twin Vistas on the Past (Midway Reprint Series)
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Oswald Spengler
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Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent, 1968-1987 (Studies in Cultural History)
( Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deser...)
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Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974
(The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines ...)
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The Obstructed Path
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Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974
(The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines ...)
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Consciousness and Society by Hughes, H. Stuart(June 11, 2002) Paperback
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Consciousness and Society by H. Stuart Hughes (2002-06-11)
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History as Art and as Science: Twin Vistas on the Past (Midway Reprint Series) by H. Stuart Hughes (1975-12-15)
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Between Commitment and Disillusion: The Obstructed Path and The Sea Change, 1930–1965
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Consciousness and Society
( H. Stuart Hughes was perhaps the greatest chronicler o...)
- The Obstructed Path: French Social Thought in the Years of Desparation (TB 1451)
- Between Commitment and Disillusion: The Obstructed Path and The Sea Change, 1930-1965 by H. Stuart Hughes (1987-12-01)
- Oswald Spengler
- The United States and Italy (The Norton library. History)
- The Obstructed Path: French Social Thought in the Years of Desperation, 1930-1960 New edition by Hughes, H. Stuart (2001) Paperback
- Consciousness and Society The Reorientation of European Social Thought 1890-1930
- The sea change: The migration of social thought, 1930-1965 (McGraw-Hill paperback)
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The Obstructed Path: French Social Thought in the Years of Desperation 1930-1960
Membership
Independent candidate for United States Senate, 1962. Co-chairman National Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy, 1963-1967, chairman, 1967-1970. Served from private Field Artillery, to lieutenant colonel Office of Strategic Services Army of the United States, 1941-1946.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American History Association, American Committee History Second World War (founding chairman), Society for Italian History Studies (past president), Academy Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome).
Connections
Married Suzanne Rufenacht, December 28, 1949 (divorced 1963). Children: Sandra Latham, Kenneth Stuart. Married Judith B. Markham, March 26, 1964.
1 son, David Markham.
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