2611 results for '"Dominic Scott'

In 1857, following the publication of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was charged with having committed an "outrage to public morality and religion." Dominick LaCapra, an intellectual historian with...

Discusses the problems of text and context in studying the philosophical writings of Wittgenstein, Ricoeur, Sartre, Jameson, Marx, and Bakhtin

Lorsqu'elle se réfugie à Paris, rue Campagne-Première, Linda n'a que vingt ans, mais déjà tout un passé. Adolescente, cette aristocrate franco-allemande a vécu un amour fou avec un communiste...

"Martin Buber (1878-1965) est, avec Freud, Einstein ou Kafka, l'un des penseurs juifs les plus connus du XXe siècle, dont il a vécu les tragiques bouleversements. Né à Vienne, ayant passé son enfance...

Luther and Calvin applied the term fanatic to those who sought to destroy civil society in order to establish the Kingdom of God, the "false prophets" and their followers who, early on in the...

"This is a historical study that adopts the standpoint of historical anthropology. I do not mean by this that the book is partially based on the work of social and cultural anthropologists dealing...

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The Forbidden City in Beijing is one of the greatest royal palaces in the world: and was the sacred centre of the Chinese empire. Despite political upheaval and social change in the rest of China,...

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Enfant prodige, publiée dès l’adolescence, Marina Ivanova Tsvetaïeva (1892-1941), la romantique Moscovite, rencontre Serge Efron, son éternel mari, son éternel enfant, alors qu’elle n’a que dix-huit...

Il est des vies qui ne valent que par leurs œuvres. Telle est bien l'existence de Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Issu d'un milieu pauvre et pieux, il se fit très tôt remarquer par ses dons...

"LaCapra offers an intriguing collection of essays to support both his enthusiasm for intellectual history... and his concern about the 'excesses' he finds in techniques and practices of the new...