Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality…
The French Revolution had a marked impact on the ways in which citizens saw the newly-liberated spaces in which they now lived. Painting, gardening, cinematic displays of landscape, travel guides, public festivals, tales of space flight and devil-abduction each shaped citizens' …
by Bradley, David, Johnson, Robert, Willard, Jerry, Askew, R., Cutting, Francis, Cornyshe, William, Allison, Richard, Besard, Jean-Baptiste, Attaingnant, Pierre, Negri, Cesare, Anonym, Ballard, Robert, Dowland, John, Neusidler, Hans, Estrée, Jean d', Josquin des Prés, Milan, Luis, Henry,, VIII,, konge af England, Fuhrmann, Georg Leopold, Ravenscroft, Thomas, Praetorius, Michael
This volume assembles leading scholars from a range of disciplines to debate multiculturalism in theory and practice. The volume is grouped around four central questions raised by multiculturalism: is universalism ethnocentric?; does multiculturalism threaten citizenship?; do mi…
Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment and will not be restrained by aca…
Den franske revolutions ideologiske hovedværk, der forbinder kravene om personlig og politisk frihed med økonomiske, sociale og kulturelle rettigheder i visionen om et gennemført demokratisk samfund.
"Examines how ephemeral images and objects made in 1790s France mediated the memory of the French Revolution and enabled new forms of political subjectivity"--Provided by publisher.
In the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged in one of the twentieth century's greatest social and architectural experiments: transforming a mostly rural country into a modernized urban nation. Through the state-sanctioned construction of mass housi…
Since the 16th century, Paris has been a leading arbiter of taste and the ultimate source of luxury goods for Europe and the world. This text examines the origins of the luxury trades of Paris and their role in the wider economic development of France and Europe. It aims to prov…
Since the 16th century, Paris has been a leading arbiter of taste and the ultimate source of luxury goods for Europe and the world. This text examines the origins of the luxury trades of Paris and their role in the wider economic development of France and Europe. It aims to prov…
