Philippe Aries and the Politics of French Cultural History
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European historical scholarship
European scholarship analysis
French historians of the twentieth century
French historical thought
French intellectual history
French modern history studies
French political history
French right-wing intellectuals
French scholars in global context
historian as journalist
historians of culture and society
historical demography
historical legacy evaluation
historical methodology analysis
historical reception studies
historical research and teaching
historical scholarship and influence
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historiography and biography
history of childhood studies
history of family and society
history of French ideas
history of personal and social values
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intellectual biography studies
intellectual life in France
intellectual networks in France
interdisciplinary historical analysis
l'histoire des mentalites
methodological innovations in history
modern cultural historiography
Philippe Aries biography
post-World War II historiography
private life and social history
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twentieth century historiography
Vichy regime intellectuals
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- ISBN 9781558494633
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 368 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2004
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A revealing study of one of the twentieth century's most original and influential historians; The author of Centuries of Childhood and other landmark historical works, Philippe Aries (1914-1984) was a singular figure in French intellectual life. He was both a political reactionary and a path-breaking scholar, a sectarian royalist who supported the Vichy regime and a founder of the new cultural history - popularly known as l'histoire des mentalites - that developed in the decades following World War II. In this book, Patrick H. Hutton explores the relationship between Aries's life and thought and evaluates his contribution to modern historiography, in France and abroad. According to Hutton, the originality of Aries's work and the power of his appeal derived from the way he drew together the two strands of his own intellectual life: his enduring ties to the old cultural order valued by the right-wing Action Francaise, and a newfound appreciation for the methodology of the leftist Annales school of historians. A demographer by training, he pioneered a new route into the history of private life that eventually won him a wide readership and in late life an appointment to the faculty of the prestigious Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. At the same time, he fashioned himself as a man of letters in the intellectual tradition of the Action francaise and became a perspicacious journalist as well as a stimulating writer of autobiographical memoirs. In Hutton's view, this helps explain why, more than any other historian, Philippe Aries left his personal signature on his scholarship.
Patrick H. Hutton is professor emeritus of history at the University of Vermont and author of History as an Art of Memory.
