History makes us human. Lessons from the past
€ 3.00Is it true that culture makes us human? Alas, the criticism against humanism, its Eurocentrism, deviations and distortions make this statement highly questionable.
So perhaps it is history rather than culture? But which history?
Global history, the history of migrants and migrations across continents, the history of miscegenation and the contamination of ideas, objects, technologies and religions. History reminds us Europeans of what we have done throughout the world and explains what our impulses, desires and projects were and how we abandoned the colonised worlds when we came home.
A global history, capable of establishing a critical dialogue between the past and the present, with a decentralised perspective.
This is the history that makes us more human.
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Serge Gruzinski is a French historian, the Directeur de recherche émérite of CNRS and Directeur d'études all'Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Social Science. He teaches History of Colonial Iberian America and Global History in France, the United States and Brazil. In 2015, he was awarded the CISH Jaeger-LeCoultre Prize, the International Prize for History.
He is renowned and respected worldwide for his profound knowledge of the problems associated with the European conquest of America. His works translated into Italian include: La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner (SugarCo, 1991); Gli Aztechi. Il tragico destino di un impero (l’Unità/Electa-Gallimard, 1994); La colonizzazione dell’immaginario (Einaudi, 1994); Dell’idolatria (with Carmen Bernard, Einaudi, 1995); and Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato (Raffaello Cortina, 2016).
Serge Gruzinski & i Dialoghi
2017
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