Introduction: Mechanical Romanticism -- DEVICES OF COSMIC UNITY -- Ampère's Experiments: Contours of a Cosmic Cubstance -- Humboldt's Instruments: Even the Tools Will Be Free -- Arago's Daguerreotype: The Labor Theory of Knowledge -- SPECTACLES OF CREATION AND METAMORPHOSIS -- T…
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In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and ques…
"The late 20th century saw a remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France. The work of French philosophers is wide ranging, historically informed, often reaching out beyond the boundaries of philosophy; they are public intellectuals, taken seriously as contributors to debates …
Picasso and truth: from cubism to Guernica
by Clark, T.J., (Timothy James)
fromBollingen series
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Diepgaand onderzoek naar de politieke en militaire verhoudingen in Europa aan de vooravond van de eerste wereldoorlog, met veel aandacht voor de Russisch-Franse alliantie van 1894
Analyse van de oorzaken die geleid hebben tot de Franse revolutie.
"Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social…
Autobiografisch verhaal en psychosociale zelfanalyse van een Franse psychiater die als joods kind in de Tweede Wereldoorlog een oorlogstrauma opliep en dat in verschillende fases verwerkte.
"In The Path Not Taken, Jeff Horn argues that - contrary to standard, Anglocentric accounts - French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that led, over the long term, to prosperity com…
Arguing that - contrary to Anglocentric accounts - French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model, but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that over the long-term led to prosperity comparable to Britain's, this text offers a com…
The films of Jean-Luc Godard: seeing the invisible
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Type: Book