German Freedom And The Greek Ideal
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German Freedom and the Greek Ideal
Author | : W. McGrath |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137369482 |
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This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich their understanding of freedom as something deeper and more urgent that political life could offer.
Freedom in Greek Life and Thought
Author | : M. Pohlenz |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1966-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9027700095 |
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Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
Author | : Simon Goldhill,Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009306454 |
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A brilliant exposition of how the Bible and classical antiquity are central to the formation of Victorian self-understanding.
Cosmopolitan Outsiders
Author | : Katherine Sorrels |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781349720620 |
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This book reconstructs the intellectual and social context of several influential proponents of European unity before and after the First World War. Through the lives and works of the well-known promoter of Pan-Europe, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, and his less well-known predecessor, Alfred Hermann Fried, the book illuminates how transnational peace projects emerged from individuals who found themselves alienated from an increasingly nationalizing political climate within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the new nation states of the interwar period. The book’s most important intervention concerns the Jewish origins of crucial plans for European unity. It reveals that some of the most influential ideas on European culture and on the peaceful reorganization of an interconnected Europe emerged from Jewish milieus and as a result of Jewish predicaments.
A Pacifist s Life and Death
Author | : Evi Gkotzaridis |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781443892063 |
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The shadow of a man standing on the back of a three-wheel pickup truck and smashing with a club the head of another man without the police even pretending to chase the killers was to haunt Greeks for many years. With hindsight, it seemed uncannily like a foretaste of what awaited Greece when the Junta stepped in on April 1967, and put a brutal end to all its democratic illusions. Using written and oral evidence, this book weaves a narrative of the life and death of Grigorios Lambrakis: athletic champion, doctor, politician and Greece’s most committed defender of democracy and peace of the post-Civil War period. It surveys the destiny of a people at key historical junctures, probes their abiding political divisions, the obstacles in asserting peace in the shadow of Civil and Cold War, and traces the origins of the deep state and paramilitarism. It shows how, as the all-consuming fear of Communism intensified, these phenomena were able to entrench themselves, gain ever more autonomy, and eventually preside over the murder of a member of parliament. In addition, the book places under the microscope what Mikis Theodorakis once called ‘the Middle Ages of Karamanlis’, namely a regime whose baleful contradictions became fertile ground for total anomie: a situation devastatingly laid bare to the world by this murder and the investigation that followed.
Eleusis and Enlightenment
Author | : Ferdinand Saumarez Smith |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2024-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004692305 |
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The age of Enlightenment – the so-called age of reason – was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.
Translations Histories Enlightenments
Author | : L. Kontler |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137371720 |
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Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In this reception study of Robertson's work, Laszlo Kontler shows how the reception of Robertson's major histories in Germany tests the limits of intellectual transfer through translation.
Property and the German Idea of Freedom
Author | : Colin F. Wilder |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2024-04-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789004685178 |
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This book offers a new interpretation of German law and politics during the era between the Thirty Years’ War and the French Revolution. Liberal ideas of freedom and equality were prototyped in Germany in property law: through the free disposition of estates, freedom from taxation and other extractions, and free use of paper money. Civil liberty, ideas about equality, and restrictions on arbitrary state power were real, recognized, and meaningful. These freedoms were enjoyed by all classes of Germans. They were thought to have been built atop Germans’ ancient heritage of freedom and a federalist imperial constitution which inspired Montesquieu and the American Founders. Driving these trends were ideas about political economy, enlightened reform, practical problem-solving, as well as forces of supply and demand in everything from the market for books to the market for justice. This book places the story of early modern German freedom close by the side of more familiar stories of England, North America, France, and the Netherlands.