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Encounter Classics

Past and Present: The Challenges of Modernity, from the Pre-Victorians to the Postmodernists Gertrude Himmelfarb


Hardback (B401) | May 2017 | Encounter Books | 9781594039256 | 256pp | 228x152mm | RFB | AUD$42.99, NZD$54.99

 

Past and Present brings together newly collected essays by the distinguished American historian and cultural critic, Gertrude Himmelfarb. Their common theme is the intriguing, often unexpected ways in which the past illuminates the present.
The novelist William Faulkner wrote that "The past is never dead. It's not even past." In these essays, Himmelfarb shows the truth of this statement. She helps us find a new perspective on contemporary issues by bringing to bear a trenchant analysis of debates and thinkers of the past. She allows the past to inform the present without distorting either past or present.