Eric Hobsbawm

Oct 10, 2022

Eric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"

New Books Network 2022

In this episode from the Vault, we hear from historian Eric Hobsbawm, a frequent visitor at the New York Institute for the Humanities. His talk, Literacy and the Tower of Babel, took place in November 1984.

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