Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Heinrich Philipp Conrad Henke
Excerpt from Heinrich Philipp Conrad Henke: Denkwürdigkeiten Aus Seinem Leben Und Dankbare Erinnerungen An Seine Verdienste Von Zweien Seiner Schüler Amb moburd; a ficb walgte/ baumibe 58abìenfie um bic qbiffenfcbaft tt unb um ihre $betelgret \erwotben bat, geigt ber annette 'lf5ftbnîtt, unt ter ber %uffcbrift: ba'nîbare @rìnnerum gen an &enfwé %crbîenflz. Sbic $ber: fafi'et beibtt 2[6fònìttc fiat) feìt Safina eng vm Bunbene '?yreunhc unb flìmmm in ben ineìftm Spunpten bollfommen fibmìn; follte ein aufmcrf: fame:: £cfer ber borlìegenben (c)cbtîft bmnocb cin: adm Ungleîòbeìten in ben '2infx'cbten Bemeé fen, fo wìrb 'cv' hiefe nicfit duciu Damit ent: fòufbigen, bag nie...
Grace, Talent, and Merit
Poor students experienced a kind of upward mobility that was not uncommon in old-regime Europe. They were also objects of controversy. and as such they reveal the many dimensions of the issue of opening careers to talent. At stake were socially and politically sensitive questions about the relative importance of nature and nurture, of natural talent and 'birth', in realizing human potential; about the proper reconciliation of collective imperatives and individual freedom, of hierarchical stability and progress; about how national systems of education should be structured; about the kind and degree of upward mobility the society and the culture needed and could tolerate. This 1988 book shows how a cluster of familiar eighteenth-century ideas about grace, talent, and merit shaped a formative social experience for men whose importance is still celebrated today, as well as for members of the educated elite who were and have remained obscure.
Practicing Progress
The essay reads an Enlightened and modern critique of progress in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. With numerous references to other operas and texts, and with a storyline that emphasizes inevitable, yet mutable aspects of human nature, Cosi presents an ambivalent picture of the ways in which even the most disinterested and best-informed attitude toward the past can affect the future. At the same time, the opera seems to embrace the notion of freedom of choice without rejecting tradition or repetition. The essay also comments on the performance of Cosi in Zurich in 2000, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who often works with authentic period instruments.
