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Amadurecido pelas viagens e pela experiência da vida, materialmente afortunado, Luciano cedo se farta da atividade judiciária, da retórica e da sofística, para se entregar a uma atividade literária que, não sendo nova, ele, no entanto, reforma de maneira radical: trata-se do diálogo filosófico, mas agora entendido e elaborado segundo princípios originais. De facto, Luciano aligeira substancialmente o majestoso diálogo filosófico que vinha dos tempos de Platão e acrescenta-lhe um aspeto dramático, orientado no sentido da sátira - o que significa reunir no «novo género» dois géneros diferentes e até muito diversos: o diálogo filosófico e a comédia. Realmente, foram sobretudo as obras em forma de diálogo que deram fama a Luciano. É nelas que melhor se expande a sua crítica panfletária e corrosiva, que atinge, literalmente, tudo e todos: os deuses e os heróis, a religião e as religiões, a filosofia e as suas variadíssimas seitas, a moral convencional, a sociedade e os seus pilares mais destacados, os homens e as suas vaidades, as suas superstições irracionais e o aproveitamento que delas fazem os espertos ... enfim, podemos dizer que em Luciano conflui o que de mais violento havia na comédia. Um certo epicurismo prático e um cinismo teórico afinam e refinam o processo.

Military campaigns. --- Criminals.

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Military campaigns. --- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 --- Campaigns

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Captured by hostile natives, a Puritan woman in colonial New England must rely on her faith to survive When Mary Rowlandson awoke on February 10, 1675, the village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was already on fire. For two hours, Rowlandson's family fought to protect their home from marauding Narragansett Indians. Finally, their little house was set ablaze, and the Rowlandsons fled into the open, where Mary and her three children were taken captive. So begins one of the most harrowing and unforgettable captivity narratives in the history of American literature. For eleven weeks, Mary and her surviving children traveled the wilderness with their captors, an arduous ordeal that tested the limits of her faith, and taught her the true meaning of empathy. A thrilling story packed with fascinating details about Native American customs and culture, Mary Rowlandson's account was an immediate bestseller when first published in 1682 and is a must-read for students of American history. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Indian captivities. --- Military campaigns. --- Rowlandson, Mary White,

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Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912-1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian. In this first volume of Forgotten Wars, the authors chart the origins and outbreak of the First World War, the early battles, and the war's impact on ordinary soldiers and civilians through to the end of the Romanian campaign in December 1916, by which point the Central Powers controlled all of the Balkans except for the Peloponnese. Combining military and social history, the authors make extensive use of eyewitness accounts to describe the traumatic experience that established a region stretching between the Baltic, Adriatic, and Black Seas.

World War, 1914-1918 --- Campaigns --- Causes. --- Military campaigns.

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The Death of Transcendence presents a clear and compelling close reading and interpretation of the five essays included in Jean Améry's At the Mind's Limits, describing them as one continuous and progressing argument on the possibility of human society in wake of the Holocaust. Through the thought of the Ludwig Wittgenstein, Iris Murdoch, J.M. Bernstein, and Charles Taylor, Ashkenazy uncovers the importance and significance of such concepts as transcendence, lose, self, other, love, and home for establishing and maintaining a human life and world, and recovering it, should it be lost. Written with both clarity and academic rigour, this book offers novel ideas, firmly grounded in existing philosophical literature, and is intended for both professional scholars and general readers of Améry.

Philosophy --- History --- filosofie --- Tweede Wereldoorlog --- holocaust --- anno 1940-1949 --- Europe --- Military campaigns. --- War.