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A very brief history of eternity
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ISBN: 1282458558 9786612458552 1400831873 9781400831876 9781282458550 9780691133577 0691133573 6612458550 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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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.


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ISBN: 9780691133577 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) Princeton University Press

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Butterfly's sisters
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ISBN: 9780300169461 9786613600868 0300169469 9780300115215 0300115210 1280571268 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Haven

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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.


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Why the West rules - for now : the patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future
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ISBN: 9780374290023 0374290024 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Farrar, Straus and Giroux


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What makes civilization? : the ancient Near East and the future of the West
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ISBN: 9780192805805 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press


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Historiographie de l'antiquité et transferts culturels
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ISBN: 1282916904 9786612916908 9042032065 9789042032064 9781282916906 9042030410 9789042030411 6612916907 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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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.

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