I must admit, I am quite flattered by your high opinion of me and of my journal--though I am not certain I entirely deserve it. I'm merely a student of the Revolution whose strong political beliefs and unwillingness to swallow propaganda have made eager to find out the truth about the Revolution and its historians and then share it with, really, anyone who will listen.
Translating is one of the ways I can best achieve that. When one has spent over a 1000 hours in French classes, as I have--and probably at least twice that many outside of class--it's not hard to be a competant translator. Even given all that, I still can't speak as well as I would like.
I've read excerpts of Penser la Révolution; I don't think I would have the stomach to make it through the whole thing. Nearly all of Furet's premises are absurd, because they come from an unwillingness to consider context, from the desire to superimpose 20th century politics onto the 18th century, and from the hypocritical recycling of old counterrevolutionary rants passed off as something new. Schama, less cleverly and more luridly, does essentially the same thing.
As for my school, I don't have much to say about it, unless you have any more specific questions....
Again, I'm glad you've been enjoying my journal, and please feel free to keep reading and commenting--that's what it's there for!
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Date: Monday, 29 June 2009 07:24 (UTC)I must admit, I am quite flattered by your high opinion of me and of my journal--though I am not certain I entirely deserve it. I'm merely a student of the Revolution whose strong political beliefs and unwillingness to swallow propaganda have made eager to find out the truth about the Revolution and its historians and then share it with, really, anyone who will listen.
Translating is one of the ways I can best achieve that. When one has spent over a 1000 hours in French classes, as I have--and probably at least twice that many outside of class--it's not hard to be a competant translator. Even given all that, I still can't speak as well as I would like.
I've read excerpts of Penser la Révolution; I don't think I would have the stomach to make it through the whole thing. Nearly all of Furet's premises are absurd, because they come from an unwillingness to consider context, from the desire to superimpose 20th century politics onto the 18th century, and from the hypocritical recycling of old counterrevolutionary rants passed off as something new. Schama, less cleverly and more luridly, does essentially the same thing.
As for my school, I don't have much to say about it, unless you have any more specific questions....
Again, I'm glad you've been enjoying my journal, and please feel free to keep reading and commenting--that's what it's there for!