Editorial: Beyond East and West

Abstract

K arl Marx was sitting at an austere desk in the British Library in the Bloomsbury district of London when he penned these well-known words, but England was not the object of his attention on that day early in 1852.Marx was actually writing for an American audience about the coup d'etat of Louis Bonaparte -'Napoleon the Little'that had taken place in France on 1 December of the previous year, but his words are surely apposite for many places and times.In this, the second volume of Humanities Research devoted to a consideration of the 'Museums of the Future', the contributors EDITORIAL: BEYOND EAST AND WEST PAUL A. PICKERINGMen make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. 1 (Karl Marx)

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