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he challenges us to rethink the ordinary world and take life seriously – in short

“then we could try to take our history in our own hands

he scrupulously distinguishes between the “traditional” categories of petty-bourgeoisie—shopkeepers

A Zone of Engagement keyword-greenaway narrative historyThe texts in this volume offer critical assessments of a number of leading figures in contemporary intellectual life, who are in different ways thinkers at the intersection of history and politics. They include Roberto Unger, advocate of plasticity; the historians of antiquity and of revolution, Geoffrey de Ste. Croix and Isaac Deutscher; the philosophers of liberalism, Norberto Bobbio and Isaiah Berlin; the sociologists of power, Michael Mann and W.