Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga, was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth7 December 1872
arranging creates history limited primarily
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
original-thought revolution essentials
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
simple practice confusion
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
science progress culture
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.
fighting way belief
Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.
simple feelings culture
The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.
thoughtful essence america
Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.
fundamentals elements culture
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
against character dam dominant european french influence longer maintain market nor social together wake
wake the French from their dream, and tell them honestly: 'No, we no longer have the dominant influence we once had in Europe, nor will we get it back. We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.'