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Knud Lyne Rahbek var bare en stor knægt på den tid, da Goethes roman "Den unge Werthers lidelser" ramte Europa og gjorde det moderne blandt unge mænd at gå klædt som hovedpersonen og gemme på en hemmelig og forbudt kærlighed, som fremkaldte selvmordstanker. Rahbeks egen ungdomskærlighed var skuespillerinden Johanne Rosing, der var gift med hans ven, kongelig skuespiller Michael Rosing. Gennem breve og dagbogsoptegnelser skildres venskabet med ægteparret Rosings og den forbudte kærlighed i de skønne følelsers tid. Knud Lyne Rahbek (1760-1830) var en dansk litterat, redaktør, teaterkritiker, digter og oversætter. Han var en af sin samtids betydeligste kulturpersonligheder, og sammen med sin kone, Kamma Rahbek, var han ofte vært for den danske guldalders unge kunstnere og intellektuelle i hjemmet i Bakkehuset på Frederiksberg. Knud Lyne Rahbeks omfattende selvbiografi er en meget vigtig kilde til tidens kulturliv.
The Drama of History plumbs the rich relationship between drama and philosophy. Kristin Gjesdal offers a lively and accessible discussion of the philosophical aspects of Henrik Ibsen's work. She shows how well-known nineteenth-century philosophers such as Hegel and Nietzsche develop their thoughts in interaction with the dramatic arts. At the heart of this interaction is a shared interest in exploring the existential condition of human life as lived and experienced in history. In this sense, Gjesdal engages philosophy's capacity beyond its narrow academic confines.
Lines are omnipresent in our everyday experience and language. They reflect and influence the spatial and temporal structures of our world view. Taking Tim Ingold’s cultural history of the line as a starting-point, this book understands lines as expressions that allow insights into cultural theoretical phenomena and thus go beyond their mere form. The essays will investigate this premise from various disciplines (architecture, art, cartography, film, literature and philosophy).
Judith grew up with family on the islands and Brisbane. Adult life took her around the world to experience living in Lae, New Guinea, Manila capital of the Philippines, Jakarta capital of Indonesia, and in the United Kingdom for six months. Retirement has brought her back to her islands enabling this memento of history to be recorded.
This is the narrative of the Scandinavian scientist, Hans Christian rsted, the discoverer of electromagnetism. rsted was also one of the cultural leaders and organizers of the Danish Golden Age, making significant contributions to aesthetics philosophy, pedagogy, politics, and religion.
Ludvig Holberg is the most important man of letters in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway and is often referred to as the father of Danish and Norwegian Literature, the Molière of the North, the founder of Scandinavian drama, or even as the first Scandinavian feminist. In all his writings - apart from being a dramatist in his own right - he excelled as a satirist, historian and essayist, Holberg is a true child of the Enlightenment advocating tolerance and moderation. At the same time, however, he transgressed its parameters. He introduced a series of classical genres but also violated their rules; he generally supported absolute monarchy but criticized its deficiencies, sometimes with subtl...
I would like to write a novel in which the main character would be a man who got a pair of glasses, one lens of which reduced images as powerfully as an oxyhydrogen microscope, and the other of which magnified on the same scale, so that he perceived everything relatively. ? A flight of fancy by an aspiring science fiction writer? While it may sound as such, this wistful musing is one of the little-discussed personal reflections of nineteenth-century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, whose remarkable journals and notebooks, unpublished during his lifetime, are presented here. The first of an eleven-volume series produced by Copenhagen's Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, this volume is the fir...