Author: Mary Bell PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Publication of English Humaniora in Germany in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Mary Bell PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
University of California Publications in Modern Philology
Author: Germany
Author: Neil MacGregorPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101875674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.
C.F.W. Walther's Original Der Lutheraner Volumes One through Three (1844-'47): The LCMS in Formation
Author: C. F. W. WaltherPublisher: Joel Baseley
ISBN: 0982252382
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Rome the Cosmopolis
Author: Catharine EdwardsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521030113
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A collection of essays exploring key aspects of the relationship between Rome and its empire.
The Laboratory of the Mind
Author: James Robert BrownPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134865791
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though most scientists and philosophers would admit their great importance, there has been very little serious study of them. This volume is the first book-length investigation of thought experiments. Starting with Galileo's argument on falling bodies, Brown describes numerous examples of the most influential thought experiments from the history of science. Following this introduction to the subject, some substantial and provocative claims are made, the principle being that some thought experiments should be understood in the same way that platonists understand mathematical activity: as an intellectual grasp of an independently existing abstract realm. With its clarity of style and structure, The Laboratory of the Mind will find readers among all philosophers of science as well as scientists who have puzzled over how thought experiments work.
Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany
Author: Gerhild Scholz WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Focusing on knowledge, science and literature in early modern Germany, this collection presents 12 essays on emerging epistemologies regarding: the transcendent nature of the Divine; the natural world; the body; sexuality; intellectual property; aesthetics; demons; and witches.
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Author: Gartenlaube
Author: Religious Individualisation
Author: Martin FuchsPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110580934
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods, in particular in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past. Contrary to standard theories of modernisation, which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an essentially Western or Christian phenomenon, the chapters reveal processes of religious individualisation in a large variety of non-Western and pre-modern scenarios. Furthermore, the volume challenges prevalent views that regard religions primarily as collective phenomena and provides nuanced perspectives on the appropriation of religious agency, the pluralisation of religious options, dynamics of de-traditionalisation and privatisation, the development of elaborated notions of the self, the facilitation of religious deviance, and on the notion of dividuality.