Manuel Castells vs. Eric Hobsbawm
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Manuel Castells
1942 – present
Manuel Castells Oliván is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society, communication and globalization.
"An analysis is possible only if one reduces social action to a language and social relations to systems of communication. The ideological displacement carried o…"
Eric Hobsbawm
1917 – 2012
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" and the "short 20th century", and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions". He was a life-long Marxist, and his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work.
"Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production."
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