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Subversive Simone Weil
A Life in Five Ideas
Häftad, 2023
127 kr
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Known as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909–43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lycée students and organized …
Subversive Simone Weil
A Life in Five Ideas
Inbunden, 2021
244 kr
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Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lycee students and organized …
France and Its Empire Since 1870
Av Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
1657 kr
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Providing an up-to-date synthesis of the history of an extraordinary nation--one that has been shrouded in myths, many of its own making--France and Its Empire Since 1870 seeks both to understand these myths and to uncover the complicated and often contradictory realities that underpin them. It …
France And Its Empire Since 1870
Av Alice Conklin, Sarah Fishman m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
629 kr
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A new history of modern France built around five innovative features that reviewers strongly support. The text will maintain the 'traditional' narrative that students need and integrate the themes of imperialism and immigration into the narrative, while situatiing French history in both …
Victories Never Last
Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague
Inbunden, 2022
213 kr
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A timely and nuanced book that sets the author's experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of five great thinkers who confronted their own plagues.In any time of disruption, grief, or uncertainty, many of us seek comfort or wisdom in the work of great writers …
Nîmes at War
Religion, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938–1944
Häftad, 1994
543 kr
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"Vichy will not go away. As I write, France is in the throes of the Paul Touvier affair. . . . The Touvier affair is just the most recent expression of what Henry Rousso has called the Vichy syndrome." So begins Robert Zaretsky's timely study of everyday life in France during the "dark years" of …
Philosophers' Quarrel
Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
Av Robert Zaretsky, John T. Scott
Häftad, 2010
492 kr
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The dramatic collapse of the friendship between Rousseau and Hume, in the context of their grand intellectual quest to conquer the limits of human understanding.The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they …
Boswell’s Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2015
443 kr
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Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Boswell’s Enlightenment examines the conflicting credos of reason and faith, progress and tradition that …
Catherine & Diderot
The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2019
280 kr
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A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb.In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot stumbled from a carriage in wintery St. Petersburg. …
Life Worth Living
Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
Häftad, 2016
208 kr
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In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer's duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance against oppression." These twin obsessions help explain something of Camus' remarkable character, which is the overarching subject of this …
Cock and Bull Stories
Folco De Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue
Häftad, 2008
232 kr
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In the French Camargue—the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern "nation" of Occitania—the bull is a powerful icon of nationalism, literature, and culture. How this came to be—how the Camargue bull came to confront the French cock, venerable symbol of a unified and …
France at War
Vichy and the Historians
Av Sarah Fishman, Robert Zaretsky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2197 kr
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This volume about the Vichy years and the German Occupation of 1940-1944 uses as a starting point Robert Paxton's Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, which provided a meticulously documented portrait of a nation consumed by indecision and self-doubt. The essays by the foremost scholars in the …
From Homesteader to Art Collector: The Life and Times of Jacob Greenberg
Inbunden, 2023
339 kr
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La subversiva Simone Weil
Una vida de cinco ideas
E-bok, 2022
68 kr
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Simone Weil (1909-1943) fue una de las pensadoras más notables del siglo xx, una filósofa que realmente vivió de acuerdo con sus ideales políticos y éticos. En su corta vida enmarcada por las dos guerras mundiales enseñó filosofía a estudiantes y trabajadores sindicales, se unió al movimiento de la …
