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The Economy of Glory

The Economy of Glory

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Autor: Robert Morrissey

Wydawnictwo: Chicago University Press
ISBN: 9780226924588
Kategoria: Poradniki i albumy
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From the outset of Napoleon's career, the charismatic Corsican was compared to mythic heroes of antiquity like Achilles, and even today he remains the apotheosis of French glory, a value deeply embedded in the country's history. From this angle, the Napoleonic era can be viewed as the final chapter in the battle of the Ancients and Moderns. In this...
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Artifact and Artifice

Artifact and Artifice

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Autor: Jonathan M. Hall

Wydawnictwo: Chicago University Press
ISBN: 9780226096988
Kategoria: Poradniki i albumy
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Is it possible to trace the footprints of the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was there really an individual named Romulus, and if so, when did he found Rome? Is the tomb beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica home to the apostle Peter? To answer these questions, we need both dirt and words - that is, archaeology and history. Bringing the...
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Making England Western

Making England Western

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Autor: Saree Makdisi

Wydawnictwo: Chicago University Press
ISBN: 9780226923130
Kategoria: Naukowe, popularnonaukowe
The central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that premise in Making England Western, identifying the convergence between the British Empire's civilizing...
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Hawking Incorporated

Hawking Incorporated

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Autor: Helene Mialet

Wydawnictwo: Chicago University Press
ISBN: 9780226522289
Kategoria: Książki obcojęzyczne
These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the person, the human, and the body are - or, alternatively, where they stop. These are the kinds of...
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Contesting Nietzsche

Contesting Nietzsche

In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche's philosophy, providing a new...
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The Invention of Religion in Japan

The Invention of Religion in Japan

Through most of its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion." There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties demanding, among other things, freedom of religion, the country has to...
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