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Cambridge studies in French volume 60
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures. Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that "philosophy should be written like poetry." But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual...
90) Education and learning in the Netherlands, 1400-1600: essays in honour of Hilde de Ridder-Symoens
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume 123
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" (The Wall Street Journal), award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren...