Jacob Burckhardt
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This monumental work by a distinguished European scholar presents a scrupulously realistic approach to ancient Greek civilization. Professor Burckhardt dispenses with superficial and sentimental views of ancient Greece to embrace a more sophisticated and accurate vision of a complex culture that practiced both the best and worst elements of the social contract. A penetrating thinker with a genius for concrete illustration, Burckhardt begins with a...
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Español
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"Para Jacob Burckhardt es en la Italia renacentista cuando y donde florecen tanto el individualismo como la competición por conquistar la fama, elementos que transformaron radicalmente la ciencia, las artes y la política. Reconstruyendo la atmósfera de los estados italianos de Florencia, Venecia y Roma, y rastreando las vidas de personajes como Dante, Pico della Mirandola, Maquiavelo, Petrarca, Lorenzo el Magnífico, César Borgia, Alejandro VI...
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"A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss"--
An artist at the center of a landmark era in American art, Schloss writes about the artists, poets, and musicians who were part of the postwar art movements in America. She covers both her life as an artist in America and later in Italy, where she continued to paint and write until her death...
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St. Martin's Press
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1998
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English
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"Burchkardt portrayed ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world based on ruthless competition for honor, which led, in turn, to a tyrannous state with minimal freedoms ... Athenian democracy provided a forum where dangerous demagogues could bend the masses to their will and where the individual could co little to resist the decisions of the demos."--Jacket.
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Insel-Bücherei volume no. 126
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Im Insel-verlag
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[1932]
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Deutsch
19) Rubens
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Gumanitarnoe agentstvo "Akademicheskiĭ proekt"
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2000
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Russian