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6 produkter
Culture of Disaster
E-bok, 2012
1220 kr
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From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared responsibility for the damages caused by a violent …
Monstrous Imagination
Häftad, 1993
469 kr
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“What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster?” This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it …
Mourning Glory
The Will of the French Revolution
Häftad, 1997
344 kr
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Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history.
Mourning Glory
The Will of the French Revolution
E-bok, 2015
437 kr
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Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history.
Catastrophe & Spectacle
Variations of a Conceptual Relation from the 17th to the 21st Century
Av Johannes Ungelenk, Gianluca Solla m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
276 kr
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From epidemics in the 17th century and the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 to Guernica in World War II, the essays in this volume trace the development of the catastrophic imagination, relying heavily on pictorial media and different forms of staging. Catastrophe in its modern sense seems to be …
Culture of Disaster
Inbunden, 2012
499 kr
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From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared responsibility for the damages caused by a violent …
