Author: Ronald de LeeuwPublisher:
ISBN: 9789040097966
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Van Gogh Museum Journal 1995
Author: Ronald de LeeuwPublisher:
ISBN: 9789040097966
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Index to the Species of Mollusca Introduced from 1850 to 1870
Author: Florence A. RuhoffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Taming of the Oyster
Author: Melbourne Romaine CarrikerPublisher: National Shellfisheries Ass
ISBN: 9780975288108
Category : Oyster fisheries -- History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Leiden Oriental Connections
Author: W. OtterspeerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004090224
Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 422
Book Description
For review see: J. van Goor, in: Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, jrg. 110, afl. 1 (1995); p. 137-140.
American Malacologists
Author: Robert Tucker AbbottPublisher: Shell Cabinet
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Buyer's Guide to the Piano, Organ and General Music Trades
Author: The Seduction of Culture in German History
Author: Wolf LepeniesPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691121314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it would reveal not his callousness but his sensitivity: the destruction had failed to crush his artist's spirit. It is impossible to begin to make sense of this thinking without understanding what Wolf Lepenies calls The Seduction of Culture in German History. This fascinating and unusual book tells the story of an arguably catastrophic German habit--that of valuing cultural achievement above all else and envisioning it as a noble substitute for politics. Lepenies examines how this tendency has affected German history from the late eighteenth century to today. He argues that the German preference for art over politics is essential to understanding the peculiar nature of Nazism, including its aesthetic appeal to many Germans (and others) and the fact that Hitler and many in his circle were failed artists and intellectuals who seem to have practiced their politics as a substitute form of art. In a series of historical, intellectual, literary, and artistic vignettes told in an essayistic style full of compelling aphorisms, this wide-ranging book pays special attention to Goethe and Thomas Mann, and also contains brilliant discussions of such diverse figures as Novalis, Walt Whitman, Leo Strauss, and Allan Bloom. The Seduction of Culture in German History is concerned not only with Germany, but with how the German obsession with culture, sense of cultural superiority, and scorn of politics have affected its relations with other countries, France and the United States in particular.
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
Author: Charles HodgeSenlin
Author: Conrad AikenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A Commentary on the Apocalypse
Author: Moses StuartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apocalyptic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description