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The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History
December 26, 1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The sense of reality: studies in ideas and their history
1997, Pimlico
in English
0712673679 9780712673679
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The sense of reality: studies in ideas and their history
1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.
0374260923 9780374260927
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"WHEN MEN, as occasionally happens, develop a distaste for the age in which they live, and love and admire some past period with such uncritical devotion that it is clear that, if they had their choice, they would wish to be alive then and not now - and when, as the next step, they seek to introduce into their lives certain of the habits and practices of the idealised past, and criticise the present for falling short of, or for degeneration from, this past - we tend to accuse them of nostalgic 'escapism', romantic antiquarianism, lack of realism; we dismiss their efforts as attempts to 'turn the clock back', to 'ignore the forces of history', or 'fly in the face of the facts', at best touching and childish and pathetic, at worst 'retrograde', or 'obstructive', or insanely 'fanatical', and, although doomed to failure in the end, capable of creating gratuitous obstacles to progress in the immediate present and future."
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