Télécharger le livre :  Fureur divine
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La notion de génie a été l’un des grands mythes de la modernité. Depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle, elle justifie l’existence d’individus exceptionnels, pourvus de facultés créatrices ou intellectuelles qui les distinguent des autres hommes.Artistes (Beethoven, Picasso),...

Editeur : Fayard
Parution : 2016-02-10
Collection : Divers Histoire
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Télécharger le livre :  Equality
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The definitive history of the idea of equality—and why we’re so ambivalent about it  Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2023-11-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Genealogies of Genius
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The essays in this volume seek to examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times. Collectively, they are designed to make two new statements. First, seen in historical and comparative perspective, genius is not a natural fact...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-12-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History
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Modern European intellectual history is thriving as never before. It has recovered from an era in which other trends like social and cultural history threatened to marginalize it. But in spite of enjoying a contemporary renaissance, the field has lost touch with the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-12-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Divine Fury
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Genius. With hints of madness and mystery, moral license and visionary force, the word suggests an almost otherworldly power: the power to create, to divine the secrets of the universe, even to destroy. Yet the notion of genius has been diluted in recent times. Today,...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2013-10-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Enemies of the Enlightenment
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Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2002-07-18

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