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A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality--a brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word "medieval" conjures images of the "Dark Ages"--centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery, and poor hygiene. But the myth of darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human history. The...
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"A panoramic history of rules in the Western world. Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don't, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development...
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There are two ways, by which a man may acquire any kind of learning or profit, and this is especially true of travel. Everybody knows that one can increase what one has of knowledge or of any other possession by going outwards and outwards, but what is also true, and what people know less, is that one can increase it by going inwards and inwards. There is no goal to either of these directions, nor any term to your advantage as you travel in them.
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In “Early Days of World History”, Oswald Spengler paints a dramatic and highly informative vista of humanity's ancient past. Swarms of savage tribes clash with and finally conquer sophisticated civilisations; emperors replace kings and peasants revolt against their masters. From the scorching deserts of Kash to the frozen tundra of the eternal North, sceptres are passed, and throne rooms razed, while nations disappear and new tongues become dominant....
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"As renowned intellectual historian Darrin McMahon explains in Divine Fury, the concept of genius can be traced back to antiquity, when men of great insight were thought to be advised by demons. The modern idea of genius emerged in tension with a growing belief in human equality; contesting the notion that all are created equal, geniuses served to dramatize the exception of extraordinary individuals not governed by ordinary laws. Today, the idea of...
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A masterpiece of Enlightenment-era literature, this collection of brief, incisive essays constitutes a thought-provoking analysis of eighteenth-century social and religious conventions. Voltaire intended to entertain as well as to enlighten, and his sardonic wit lends a strikingly modern feeling to these writings. One of France's most celebrated citizens, Voltaire (1694-1778) is best known for his satirical novel Candide. His political treatises,...
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Cătălin Avramescu is reader in political science at the University of Bucharest and a docent in philosophy at the University of Helsinki.
The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked travelers...
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Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical traditions. From Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger, this volume provides lively, in-depth, and up-to-date historical analysis of all the key figures, schools, and movements of Western philosophy. The Columbia History significantly broadens the scope of Western philosophy to reveal the influence...
9) Comprender la dimensión geocivilizacional en Occidente: Una mirada histórica desde un nuevo enfoque
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El consenso internacional, realizado en torno al modelo occidental y a su trayectoria civilizacional en las últimas décadas, no ha tardado en mostrar signos de fragilidad de cara a las crisis estructurales inducidas por el desarrollo de una globalización desigual. Las dudas que ha despertado la gestión poco tranquilizadora del proyecto de la globalización y de las grandes crisis mundiales, como la pandemia mundial del Covid-19, que ha sorprendido...
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The international consensus built around the Western model and its civilizational approach, in recent decades, has not been long in showing signs of fragility in the face of structural crises induced by the push for unfair globalization. The doubts that are aroused by the not very reassuring management of this project of globalization and major global crises, such as the global Covid-19 pandemic, which has taken hold of all nations, nevertheless deserve...
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"Winner of the 2006 First Book Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005" Jennifer Pitts is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. She is the editor and translator of Alexis de Tocqueville: Writings on Empire and Slavery.
A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn...
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Paul Sagar is lecturer of political theory in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. Prior to this he was junior research fellow in politics at King's College, Cambridge.
How David Hume and Adam Smith forged
a new way of thinking about the modern state
What is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated the best minds of the Enlightenment. Recovering David...
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L'Europe se trouve aujourd'hui en position d'accusée, souvent par les Européens eux-mêmes, du fait de sa prétention à l'universalité, de sa supériorité proclamée et de son arrogance intellectuelle. Qu'elle n'ait pas toujours été fidèle à ses principes, lors de la colonisation des autres peuples, ne met pourtant pas en cause sa légitimité. La critique de l'Europe n'est en effet possible qu'à l'aide des normes juridiques et des principes...
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Gregory Jusdanis is Professor of Modern Greek at Ohio State University. He is the author of The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History (Princeton) and Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature.
In this controversial look at nationalism, Gregory Jusdanis offers a sweeping defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a catalyst for modernization. Since the end of the Cold War, the nation-state...
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A partir de un conjunto de anécdotas, imágenes, hitos mediáticos y escenas famosas, el libro trata de analizar una época poco transitada por la historias políticas y culturales de la transición democrática: la década de los noventa. Los noventa fueron decisivos para la consolidación de las corrientes sociales dominantes en España desde 1978, pero no han sido abordados con la misma intensidad teórica y práctica que los años inmediatamente...
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History casts a spell on our minds more powerful than science or religion. It does not root us in the past at all. It rather flatters us with the belief in our ability to recreate the world in our image. It is a form of self-assertion that brooks no opposition or dissent and shelters us from the experience of time.
So argues Constantin Fasolt in The Limits of History, an ambitious and pathbreaking study that conquers history's power by carrying...
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Collected here are four of Niccolò Machiavelli's most important works. 'The Prince': It was Niccolò Machiavelli, who essentially removed ethics from government. He did it with this book, when he asserted that The Prince (president, dictator, prime minister, etc.) does not have to be concerned with ethics, as long as their motivation is to protect the state. It is this questionable belief that in many ways had led to the modern world, as we know...
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Superstructural Berlin is an experimental sociology of the city of Berlin. A mix of pamphlet-polemic, cultural critique, and weird colourful mapping enterprise. It tries to investigate the city as a series of infrastructures: drugs, nightclubs, arts, new economy and tourism.
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The modern world claims to inherit the values of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment Interrupted suggests a different genealogy. Instead of carrying on the Enlightenment it grew out of its suppression and forgetting, a founding act of bad faith and willed blindness that has haunted our world from its birth. In this groundbreaking analysis Michael Steinberg restores German Idealism to its rightful place as the culmination of the Enlightenment critique....
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Esta obra es un resumen que mantiene, sin embargo, el rigor y la riqueza de la información que le son característicos, y la utilización de las fuentes de primera mano, ganando en concisión y sencillez de exposición. La preocupación por el panorama del pensamiento estético general se apoya en continuas referencias concretas que enriquecen la lectura y hacen de este un texto imprescindible para el conocimiento de una época poco estudiada en...
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