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008			210202s2010 ne 000 0 eng d
020			_a9789089641809 (pbk.)
020			_a9089641807 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)505749921
050			_aD15.H85 _bO78 2010
100	1		_aOtterspeer, W.
245	1	0	_aReading Huizinga / _cWillem Otterspeer ; translated from the Dutch by Beverley Jackson.
260			_aAmsterdam : _bAmsterdam University Press, _c2010.
300			_a261 p.
505	0		_aPreface -- Introduction : a classic author -- 1. Life -- 2. Work -- 3. Reading -- 4. Writing -- 5. Contrast -- 6. Harmony -- 7. Passion -- 8. Synaesthesia -- 9. Method -- 10. Mysticism -- 11. Extrapolation -- 12. Metamorphosis -- 13. Historical greatness.
520			_aThis study by the renowned Dutch scholar Willem Otterspeer shows the same hallmark passion with which Huizinga immersed himself in history. For Huizinga, philology was the mother of all interpretative endeavour, the master skill from which all branches of humanities originate and to which they all ultimately return. Reading and writing were both part of a collective ritual that channeled human passion into beautiful forms, while passion, and how to master it, remained the fundamental fact of human life. Throughout this analysis of Huizinga's oeuvre, Otterspeer remains faithful to his main philosophical tenets, in which contrast and harmony, memory and desire, are the warp and weft of his work. And again, this is precisely what Otterspeer does. Reading and writing, passion and detachment, method and mysticism are here combined in a way that would have delighted Huizinga himself. This book is the English translation of the original Dutch edition: 'Orde en trouw' (2006).
600	1	4	_aHuizinga, Johan, _d1872-1945.
650		4	_aHistorians _zNetherlands _xBiography.
700	1		_aJackson, Beverley.
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