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Dans la collection fabuleuse de gravures, lithographies, peintures, dessins rassemblée par le Chamoniard Paul Payot (1912-1977), le " royaume du Mont-Blanc " mire à l'infini le spectacle changeant de ses splendeurs. Cet ouvrage, fruit de dix ans de recherches, propose un choix de plus de quatre cents œuvres dues au talent d'artistes des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. " Portrait " après " portrait ", le Mont-Blanc se découvre sous les masques inconnus, nouveaux et fascinants dont l'imaginaire des pionniers du " voyage aux glacières " l'a paré. " Sublime " ou " horrible ", séducteur ou redouté, " paradis terrestre " ou repaire de démons, le Mont-Blanc obsède et enchante. Qu'il éblouisse ...
A journal of philosophy covering epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mind.
Michael Cowan presents a study of modernity's preoccupation with willpower. From Nietzsche's 'will to power' to a fantasy of the 'triumph of the will' under Nazism, the will - its pathologies and potential cures - was a topic of urgent debate in European modernity.
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Identifies who today's immigrants to the United States are, describes their experiences, contributions, and impact on society, and discusses how an immigrant becomes a citizen.
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In France's Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Catholicism, the Third Republic engendered its own fantastical ways of seeing by embracing observation, corporeal dynamism, and imaginative introspection. How these republican ideals and the new national education system of the 1870s and 80s - the structure meant to impart these ideals - shaped belle époque popular culture is the focus of this book. The author reassesses the meaning of secularization and of...