Bøker av Patrick H. Hutton

In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneering scholars have traveled in their research and writing on this topic: notably, the politics of commemoration (purposes and practices of public remembrance);

Philippe Aries (1914-1984) was a singular figure in French intellectual life. He was both a political reactionary and a sectarian royalist who supported the Vichy. 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.