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
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.
spiritual balance culture
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.
fundamentals elements culture
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
truth understanding culture
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.
nature mean culture
Culture means control over nature.
science progress culture
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.
philosophical systematic culture
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
culture ifs preserves
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
civilization disease culture
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.
culture metaphysical aim
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
dam european maintain market social
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.
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.'
bestowed heroic impossible strive survivors themselves title
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
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.