Zwischen 1919 und 1933 fanden nicht nur Polit-Hasardeure und barfüssige Propheten ungeahnte Massenresonanz – auch ein eher randständiger Begriff erlebte eine einzigartige Karriere: der Kairos. ...
Continue Reading →The book presents the author’s latest research on ancient perceptions of time; it centres on medical discussions, especially of the doctor-philosopher Galen, while also contextualizing ...
Continue Reading →A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute ...
Continue Reading →The first volume of an experimental series on historiography devoted to the place of gesture and language in the historical narrative. Book 39: The Rise ...
Continue Reading →The rules governing competitions also vary enormously. It was the Institute of British Architects which first laid down guidelines in the 1830’s, formalising them in ...
Continue Reading →Michelet deliberately threw his intimate self into his narrative, convinced that this was the way to achieve the historian’s ultimate aim: the resurrection (or re-creation) ...
Continue Reading →Michelet deliberately threw his intimate self into his narrative, convinced that this was the way to achieve the historian’s ultimate aim: the resurrection (or re-creation) ...
Continue Reading → One of the greatest Romantic historians and immensely popular during his lifetime, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) fell into disfavour among the positivist historians who came ...
Continue Reading → Jules Michelet was a French historian. In his 1855 work, Histoire de France (History of France), he was the first historian to use and ...
Continue Reading →For women, the heart is everything, says in these pages one of the greatest historians of the French Revolution, Jules Michelet.But this sentence, far from ...
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