Civilization & Culture
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:David Brooks
That’s good advice. But consider how arduous it is. “It is so easy to exist instead of live,” Quindlen said. You can rest assured that her listeners won’t renounce their ...
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Popular Culture
March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Will Durant [Durant, Will]
II. THE SIX SYSTEMS OF BRAHMANICAL PHILOSOPHY The antiquity of Indian philosophy—Its prominent rôle—Its scholars—Forms—Conception of orthodoxy—The assumptions of Hindu philosophy The priority of India is clearer in philosophy than ...
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Civilization & Culture
March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Will Durant
* * * I From the Spanish cruzada—“marked with the cross.” CHAPTER XXIV The Economic Revolution 1066–1300 I. THE REVIVAL OF COMMERCE EVERY cultural flowering finds root and nourishment in ...
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Civilization & Culture
March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Richard Chenevix Trench
LECTURE V. ON THE RISE OF NEW WORDS. If I do not much mistake, you will find it not a little interesting to follow great and significant words to the ...
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Education & Reference
March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Roberto Calasso [Calasso, Roberto]
* * * March 20, 1933. Walter Benjamin writes to Gershom Scholem that the latest urge to leave Germany has come from the “almost mathematical simultaneousness with which practically all ...
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Folklore & Mythology
March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 1987-12-09 | Author:Toynbee, Arnold J. [Toynbee, Arnold J.]
(iii) Tares and Wheat Our survey of encounters between contemporaries 1 has made us aware that the only fruitful results of these encounters are the works of peace, and most ...
( Category:
Historiography
March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Bailey, Alice A [Bailey, Alice A]
Quoted by Poulin, R. P., S.J., “Graces of Interior Prayer”, p. 272 Contemplation has been described, as a psychic gateway, leading from one state of consciousness to another. Jeremy Taylor ...
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Mysticism
February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-26 | Author:Marina Belozerskaya [BELOZERSKAYA, MARINA]
The Emperour hath two inclosures walled about, which they call Gardaines, one of which is called Stella, because the trees are planted in the figure of starres, and a little ...
( Category:
Wildlife
February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 1997-02-26 | Author:Arthur Herman
THE HOLLOW MEN: ARNOLD TOYNBEE’S LOST GENERATION By birth and education, Arnold Toynbee, Jr., was a sterling product of the New Liberalism. His college at Oxford, Balliol—which he entered in ...
( Category:
Philosophy
February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-04 | Author:Mark Lilla
1. The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910–1940, edited and annotated by Gershom Scholem and Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Manfred Jacobson and Evelyn Jacobson (University of Chicago Press, 1994). The ...
( Category:
Nationalism
February 27,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:Mark Edward Lewis [Lewis, Mark Edward]
Fig. 13 The virtuous woman of Liang holding a mirror and knife to cut off her nose, as the ruler’s messenger arrives. In practice, women successfully subverted these teachings at ...
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Ancient Civilizations
February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tod Lindberg [Lindberg, Tod]
CHAPTER 7 VESTIGIAL AND VIRTUAL HEROES Redefinitions. Heroism without risk. The hero as entertainer. Partisans and truth-tellers. From mass culture to wikiculture. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Scottish man of ...
( Category:
History & Theory
February 18,2020 )
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