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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Art and Responsibility
Author: Jules SimonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441131671
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Two German philosophers working during the Weimar Republic in Germany, between the two World Wars, produced seminal texts that continue to resonate almost a hundred years later. Franz Rosenzweig-a Jewish philosopher, and Martin Heidegger-a philosopher who at one time was studying to become a Catholic priest, each in their own, particular way include in their writings powerful philosophies of art that, if approached phenomenologically and ethically, provide keys to understanding their radically divergent trajectories, both biographically and for their philosophical heritage. Simon provides a close reading of some of their essential texts-The Star of Redemption for Rosenzweig and Being and Time and The Origin of the Work of Art for Heidegger-in order to draw attention to how their philosophies of art can be understood to provide significant ethical directives.
Truth
Author: The Academy
Author: Academy and Literature
Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch AppletonPublisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Papyrus
Author: Annual Register
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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The Annual Register
Author: The Astronomer Jules Janssen
Author: Françoise LaunayPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461406978
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A physicist and an inventor, Jules Janssen (1824-1907) devoted his life to astronomical research. He spent many years traveling around the world to observe total Solar eclipses, demonstrating that a new era of science had just come thanks to the use of both spectroscopy and photography, and persuading the French Government of the necessity of founding a new observatory near Paris. He became its director in 1875. There, at Meudon, he began routine photographic recordings of the Sun surface and had a big refractor and a big reflector built. Meanwhile, he also succeeded in building an Observatory at the summit of Mont-Blanc. The story of this untiring and stubborn globe-trotter is enriched by extracts of the unpublished correspondence with his wife. One can thus understand why Henriette often complained of the solitude in which she was left by her peripatetic husband: “There are men who leave their wives for mistresses; you do it for journeys!” ... Basking in the glow of his success, Janssen was able to undertake the construction of the great astrophysical observatory of which he had dreamed. It was at Meudon that he had it built.
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