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In his effort to detach the indispensable notion of the common good from its historical identification with the more closed, homogeneous, and static societies of the premodern past, the French political philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-87) pointed the way towards a viable conservative liberalism. So argues Daniel J. Mahoney in this compelling introduction to the life and work of Jouvenel, one of twentieth-century France's most profound philosophers and political essayists. Although he vigorously defended the historical achievement of liberal society against its totalitarian critics, Jouvenel also challenged the modern conceit that man is an autonomous being beholden neither to the mora...
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On your travel or home, 700 plants always at your fingertips! A basic guide to the most frequent plants to be found in parks, gardens, coast line, mountains, fields and woodland in: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal. Benefits: Search plant names in 11 languages: scientific, german, danish, french, english, italian, norwegian, nederlandse, portuguese, swedish, spanish. Zoom in on details, bookmark. Designed for smartphone and tablet, also useful on PC and Mac.
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Playhouse and Cosmos systematically and comprehensively describes the function of theater and role-playing as metaphors in Shakespearean drama. The author examines this metaphor's revelatory and liberating power and concludes by affirming, with Shakespeare, the creative power of theatricality in life and in art.
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