 | Colin J. D. Greene - Nature - 2004 - 456 pages
...meaning, significance or coherence: ‘Men make their own history, but they do not make itjust as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past ... And just when they seem engaged in revolutionising... | |
 | Partha Nath Mukherji, Chandan Sengupta - Social Science - 2004 - 410 pages
...insight is an old one. For Marx: 'Men make their own history, but they do not make it juit as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past....' He goes on, with his full rhetorical force, to... | |
 | Peris Jones, Kristian Stokke - Political Science - 2005 - 302 pages
...enunciated in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make...circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past" (Marx 1972:437). The second explanation, and the one I prefer, suggests that the balance of power... | |
 | Leonardo Alfonso Villalón, Peter VonDoepp - History - 2005 - 342 pages
...hackneyed of socialanalysis, but no less shrewd for its overuse: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make...circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past" (1978, 595). Giddens, among others, has given over a considerable part of his career to fleshing... | |
 | Gray Kochhar-Lindgren - Science - 2005 - 236 pages
...Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1851), Marx notes that “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make...circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”... | |
 | Walter R. Jacobs - Social Science - 2005 - 184 pages
...Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” Karl Marx teaches us that people “make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make...circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past” (Tucker 1978:595).2 Similarly, Pensieves are constrained temporally, spatially, and materially.... | |
 | Eric Davis - History - 2005 - 404 pages
...my own. Highland Park, New Jersey March 2003 1 Introduction Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make...circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And... | |
 | Leonardo A. VillalÃ3n, Peter VonDoepp - Political Science - 2005 - 342 pages
...hackneyed of socialanalysis, but no less shrewd for its overuse: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make...circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past" (1978, 595). Giddens, among others, has given over a considerable part of his career to fleshing... | |
 | Michael Shermer - Science - 2010 - 340 pages
...brilliantly succinct one-liner (from The Eighteenth Brumaire): "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make...circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past." A question arises from this: Can we find a repeatable pattern in historical sequences that demonstrates... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Volker Meja - Social Science - 2011 - 451 pages
...controlling influence in a direction which can be effective. “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make...circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.” And in the making of history, ideas and ideologies play a definite role: consider only the... | |
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not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted 
