The Itinerary of an American Cultural Historian/Interview with Lynn Hunt by Avner Ben-Amos and Moshe Sluhovsky
Lynn Hunt is a major cultural historian whose abiding focus has been the French Revolution. She has also engaged with historical epistemology and methodology. Among her books: Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France (1978); Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution (1984); The...
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Revue d'histoire culturelle
2025
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Lynn Hunt is a major cultural historian whose abiding focus has been the French Revolution. She has also engaged with historical epistemology and methodology. Among her books: Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France (1978); Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution (1984); The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992); The New Cultural History (1989); Telling the Truth about History, with Joyce Appleby and Margaret Jacob (1994) and Beyond the Cultural Turn, edited with Victoria Bonnell (1999).In this interview she discusses her long and productive career, since she began researching French archives during the 1970s, until her recent book The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Making of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800 (2025).The interview was initiated by the Israeli Historical Society, on the occasion of Hunt’s invitation to participate in the Stern Lecture Series in Spring 2025. It took place on 7 April 2025, via zoom. |
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