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Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: What is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? The eminent intellectual historian Martin Jay surveys Western ideas of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas.
"This book is a history of East Central Europe since the late eighteenth century, the region of Europe between German central Europe and Russia in the East. Connelly argues the region, for which it is frequently hard to define exact boundaries and which is sometimes treated country-by-country in a way seemingly separate from the broader trends of European history, was one of shared experience despite most of the peoples being divided by linguistic, geographic, and political barriers. Beginning in the 1780s, an unwitting Habsburg monarch -- Joseph II -- decreed that his subjects would use only German, as he hoped to mold a common nationality using German over the disparate subjects. Instead, ...
Consists of pamphlets, clippings and booklet on the history of the Hellman-Ehrman family and the Ehrman Mansion in Lake Tahoe; an Ehrman family tree by Joseph Ehrman III from 1978; a copy of a letter from Sidney M. Ehrman from 1956; a copy of an interview with Sidney M. Ehrman in 1956; and a tribute to the late Sidney M. Ehrman by Yehudi Menuhin.
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