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What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations? In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos Eire, the historian and National Book Award-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, has written a brilliant history of eternity in Western culture. Tracing the idea from ancient times to the present, Eire examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity, exploring how they developed and how they have helped shape individual and collective self-understanding. A book about lived beliefs and their relationship to social and political realities, A Very Brief History of Eternity is also about unbelief, and the tangled and often rancorous relation between faith and reason. Its subject is the largest subject of all, one that has taxed minds great and small for centuries, and will forever be of human interest, intellectually, spiritually, and viscerally.
Civilization, Western. --- Eternity --- Civilization, Occidental --- Occidental civilization --- Western civilization --- Infinite --- Future life --- History of doctrines.
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Civilization, Western. --- Eternity --- History of doctrines. --- Civilization, Western --- Infinite --- Future life --- Civilization, Occidental --- Occidental civilization --- Western civilization --- History of doctrines
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In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Western portrayal of Japanese women-and geishas in particular-from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that in the West, Japanese women have come to embody certain ideas about feminine sexuality, and she analyzes how these ideas have been expressed in diverse art forms, ranging from fiction and opera to the visual arts and music videos. Among the many works Kawaguchi discusses are the art criticism of Baudelaire and Huysmans, the opera Madama Butterfly, the sculptures of Rodin, the Broadway play Teahouse of the August Moon, and the international best seller Memoirs of a Geisha. Butterfly's Sisters also examines the impact on early twentieth-century theatre, drama, and dance theory of the performance styles of the actresses Madame Hanako and Sadayakko, both formerly geishas.
Geishas --- Civilization, Western. --- Civilization, Occidental --- Occidental civilization --- Western civilization --- Geigi --- Geiko --- Geisha --- Maiko (Geishas) --- Meiko --- Entertainers --- History.
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Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Modern --- Comparative civilization --- East and West --- Civilization, Modern. --- Civilization, Western. --- Comparative civilization. --- East and West. --- World history --- 909.09821 --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- Civilization, Comparative --- Civilization, Occidental --- Occidental civilization --- Western civilization --- History --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Geschiedenis --- Toekomstbeeldvorming --- Trends --- Toekomstvisie --- Trend --- Geneeskunde --- Techniek (wetenschap) --- Atlas --- Museum
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Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Western. --- Comparative civilization. --- Western countries --- Middle Eastern influences --- Relations --- Iraq --- Egypt --- Middle East --- Civilization --- Middle Eastern influences. --- Comparative civilization --- Civilization, Comparative --- Civilization, Occidental --- Occidental civilization --- Western civilization --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient
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De Giambattista Vico à J. G. Herder et de B. G. Niebuhr à Théodore Mommsen, les essais réunis dans ce volume nous proposent des lectures stimulantes d’un certain nombre d’œuvres majeures des Lumières et de la période post-révolutionnaire. Le livre est divisé en deux parties : la première, intitulée « Questions d’historiographie » permettra aux lecteurs d’appréhender, à travers l’analyse des récits d’histoire ancienne, les mutations du discours historique pendant le XVIIIe et le XIXe siècle. La seconde partie, intitulée « Questions de transferts culturels » , porte sur la diffusion du savoir classique dans l’Europe, notamment à travers l’analyse des mécanismes de réception. Mots clés : Antiquité et Modernité, historiographie, philosophies de l’histoire, échanges culturels, usages politiques de l’histoire, identité nationale et nationalisme.
History, Ancient --- Historiography --- Culture diffusion --- Classical philology --- Civilization, Classical --- Classical philology. --- Culture diffusion. --- Historiography. --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Culture --- Social change --- Philology, Classical --- Classical antiquities --- Greek language --- Greek literature --- Greek philology --- Humanism --- Latin language --- Latin literature --- Latin philology --- Classical civilization --- Civilization, Ancient --- Classicism --- History. --- Criticism --- 1700-1899 --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Civilization, Western --- Classical influences --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Greek influences --- Roman influences --- Civilization, Occidental --- Occidental civilization --- Western civilization
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