Could it be that the familiar and beloved figure of Confucius was invented by Jesuit priests? In Manufacturing Confucianism, Lionel M. Jensen reveals this very fact, demonstrating how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient ru tra…
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Could it be that the familiar and beloved figure of Confucius was invented by Jesuit priests? In Manufacturing Confucianism, Lionel M. Jensen reveals this very fact, demonstrating how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient ru tra…
Volume 1. Sixth century B.C.E. to seventeenth century C.E.
Examines our understanding of "the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal documents, court cases, letters, diaries, memoirs, and newspapter columns, Wyatt-Brown offers fascinating examp…
Die Geschichte der Kultur ist ein Vorgang, der erst in der Aufklärung zu sich selbst kommt. Denn erst damals gelangt zum Bewusstsein, dass "Kultur" den deutlichen Unterschied gegenüber "Natur" markiert und in dieser Hinsicht die Begründung einer zur "Würde" animierten Menschlich…
Die Geschichte der Kultur ist ein Vorgang, der erst in der Aufklärung zu sich selbst kommt. Denn erst damals gelangt zum Bewusstsein, dass "Kultur" den deutlichen Unterschied gegenüber "Natur" markiert und in dieser Hinsicht die Begründung einer zur "Würde" animierten Menschlich…
Shows how and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is mutually bound up with the changing face of popular taste in America over the past fifty years.
Shows how and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is mutually bound up with the changing face of popular taste in America over the past fifty years.
"This book offers a critical synthesis of the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c. 6500 BCE), when domestication began, to the spread of Buddhism accompanying the Mauryan Emperor Asoka's reign (third century BCE). The authors examine the growth and character o…
The revolutionary outbreak in a variety of civilizations centered around 600 B.C.E., a period in which the great world religions as well as philosophy emerged, from Hebrew scriptures and the teachings of Buddha to the works of Greek and Chinese philosophers, has been named the A…
The dream of the north: a cultural history to 1920
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"Focuses on Eugène Delacroix's fascination with the idea of civilization and the ways this idea informed the artist's writing, murals, and paintings of North Africa and animals"--Provided by publisher
