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Against the Modern World
Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and the development of the field of religious studies in the United States, touching the lives of many individuals. French writer Rene Guenon rejected modernity as a dark age and sought to reconstruct the Perennial Philosophy - the central truths behind all the major world religions. Guenon stressed the urgent need for the West's remaining spiritual and intellectual elite t...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Une amitié millénaire
La 4e de couv. indique :"Depuis la fin du premier millénaire, époque où le Septentrion se christianise, la France et la Suède entretiennent des relations suivies, plus étroites qu'on ne l'imagine d'ordinaire, et empreintes de cordialité. Sans doute les aléas de la politique internationale ont-ils parfois entraîné des refroidissements passagers, mais sans jamais vraiment altérer cette amitié séculaire dont l'ouvrage se propose de montrer la fécondité. Tous les collaborateurs, comme le note Stig Strömholm dans son Avant-Propos, ont ressenti au cours de leur travail à quel point "les relations franco-suédoises constituaient un domaine où régnait de part et d'autre une bonne v...
Woven Gold
Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king’s reputation by visualizing his manifest glory and to promote the kingdom’s nascent mercantile economy, the royal collection of tapestries included antique and contemporary sets that followed the designs of the greatest artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including Raphael, Giulio Romano, Rubens, Vouet, and Le Brun. Ranging in date from about 1540 to 1715 and coming from weaving workshops across northern Europe, these remarkable works portray scenes from the bible, his...
Les mondes universitaires face au marché
En ces temps de " mondialisation ", les réformes des systèmes universitaires, l'accroissement sans précédent du nombre d'étudiants et les réseaux numériques concourent à donner des mondes universitaires une image de fluidité, de compétition et de brouillage des frontières entre établissements publics et initiatives privées. On s'acheminerait vers un " marché " mondial de l'enseignement supérieur, fondé sur la libéralisation et la diversification concurrentielle de l'offre de formation, et vers une harmonisation mondiale des standards et titres universitaires. Transformations et réformes sont le plus souvent étudiées du point de vue des pays industrialisés. Pourtant, elle...
Science, Fables and Chimeras
The history of science provides numerous examples of the way in which imagination, religion and mythology have sometimes helped and sometimes hindered scientific progress. While established ideas and beliefs clearly held back the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin, the intuitive knowledge found in mythology, art and religion has often proved useful in indicating new ways in which to explore or represent new knowledge of the world. Stories, fables and images have contributed to drawing a fuller picture of the past, understanding the present and imagining the future. The essays in this book, written by academics, writers and artists from various fields ranging from La Fontaine’s f...
Stagg vs. Yost
Corruption, scandals, and reports of wrongdoing in college football are constantly in the news. From Penn State’s Joe Paterno to Ohio State’s Jim Tressel, we have come to learn that some of the most lauded coaches don’t always live up to their saintly reputations. Perhaps no era of college football was ever more emblematic of this than the early 1900s, a time when coaches worked the system with merciless flair to recruit the best players and then keep them eligible to play, even while other coaches were trying to steal already-enrolled players from rival universities. Amos Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago and Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan were no exception, an...
TaTa Dada
The first biography in English of Tristan Tzara, a founder of Dada and one of the most important figures in the European avant-garde. Tristan Tzara, one of the most important figures in the twentieth century's most famous avant-garde movements, was born Samuel Rosenstock (or Samueli Rosenștok) in a provincial Romanian town, on April 16 (or 17, or 14, or 28) in 1896. Tzara became Tzara twenty years later at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, when he and others (including Marcel Janco, Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Hans Arp) invented Dada with a series of chaotic performances including multilingual (and nonlingual) shouting, music, drumming, and calisthenics. Within a few years, Dada (larg...
